Adrian Sellars, David Jean Thomas, Dolph Lundgren

Two time travelers with opposing views are sent back to the present aboard a research ship in the Antarctic to prevent a global biological disaster from occuring.

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R, 93 min

Directed by: Christopher Kulikowski

Release Date: January 14, 2004

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DVD Release Date: February 24, 2009

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  • July 23, 2009
    A confoundingly poor action film. Plot is not usually the genre's strong suit... but in this case, it is not merely ridiculous or unrealistic, but utterly pathetic. One imagines all the high-tech bullets that whiz around during this film are responsible for this hole-riddled plot...( read more). Weak (at best) martial arts between clumsily-clad future space commandos makes one think they were on sleeping pills while fighting... and the gunplay is even more frustrating, with pistols that can apparently explode helicopters but can't keep them from resorting to knives against each other 100% of the time. I barely even want to touch on the romantic subplot that manages to be exceedingly convoluted despite its utter superficiality.

    Hardly worth ones time, with nearly none of its premises (a supervirus, time-travel, or sci-fi action) being even remotely delivered. All one gets are numerous closeups of the freakish bone structure of Dolph Lundgren in such varied settings as "cargo bay", "frozen cargo bay", "frozen tundra" and "corpse-strewn tundra."

    One might as well just look at publicity stills to receive the same excitement the film has to offer, without wasting an hour and a half of ones life.
  • August 4, 2009
    an alright sci-fi action movie with a so-so plot and kinda lame effects but dolph lundgren and gary daniels were good
  • May 20, 2009
    It was a ok Action movie, Had some good scenes
  • February 26, 2009
    Wow. I don't know, man. Dolph is usually fun, and he can carry a movie just by being Dolph, but even Dolph didn't seem like he was having too much fun here. 'Retrograde' has finally been released in the States after 5 years of being available in Europe. I can very much see why. T...( read more)his movie looks cheap. And I mean PM Entertainment cheap (that's saying a lot, because PM movies usually make Dolph's movies look like they have the production values of Jurassic Park in comparison); the story is tired (something about a mutant virus that has decimated the future, and Dolph is some dude from the future sent back in time to stop it, carnage ensues, etc...), and again, Dolph is just not "there." I don't think he felt the story, and I don't feel this either. Sorry, big guy. Gary Daniels, a great martial artist, is completely wasted here in a straight acting role as one of the explorers. I felt akin to how I felt watching the Crow: City of Angels, when the filmmakers had two great actors (the Yellow Ranger Trini and Iggy Pop) and DID NOTHING with them. That's Retrograde. Dolph doesn't do a whole lot here, and the rest of the movie is taken up by supporting characters and antagonists that the viewer could care less about. I'm glad I got this free @ Redbox, or I'd be giving it one star. As it's Dolph, it still gets two for the awesome jumpsuit he wears. But really, stay far away from this one and rent 'Missionary Man' instead.
  • December 16, 2007
    I just love seeing Lundgren on Screen, but honestly this Movie WAS pure waste of his Talent.
    I mean the Plot is lame. Special Effects are lame. Mostly everything is lame in this Movie. Eccept those looks of Lundgren. What schocked me was the last Fight Scene. Holly Crap I w
    ...( read more)as like wtf??? The Fight Scene looked like a rehersel or something.

    Alert for: All Lundgren fans. There is not much of Lundgren to be seen in this Movie.

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