From production company The Asylum comes “Universal Soldiers”. Now, the name gives it away that they are clearly trying to cash-in on the popularity of the “Universal Soldier” franchise but that’s not the only movie they are copying. One of the robots looks like the endoskeleton from “The Terminator”, the theme music is virtually the same as the one from “Predator” and most of the cyborgs look like the Borg from “Star Trek”.

In “Universal Soldiers”, the American government is working on a secretive program to create super soldier cyborgs. However, the test subjects escape from their lab and are killing anybody that they find. A group of soldiers and scientists must now try to disable the robots before it’s too late.

The acting in this movie is abysmal. What makes it even worse is that this film is some serious audio issues. The audio frequently gets distorted when the characters are shouting (something that happens a lot). It’s embarrassing to see a movie you can literally pay to see with such an amateurish problem. The robots look like “Star Trek” fans dressed in cheap Borg costumes for a convention. The endoskeleton seen during the opening credits and at the end looks horrible too.

This is not the worst of The Asylum’s movies but “Universal Soldiers” makes the actual first “Universal Soldier” look like a masterpiece in comparison. Normally, when The Asylum makes a rip-off they do it to coincide with a big release but this came out 2007, almost a decade after “Universal Soldier: The Return” and a couple of years before “Universal Soldier: Regeneration”. It’s definitely a strange marketing choice from the company. Either way, this is a really bad film that should avoid. Don’t get fooled into thinking this has anything to do with the Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi/action franchise.