we open with colonel luc deveraux ( van damme ) and the original universal soldier and his buxom asian friend be chase down a river by what appear to be universal soldier . they almost kill the two and then oh wait and it be just a field test . deveraux we come to find be now part of a government fund company that design the new level of universal soldier . why he would want to be involve in this ( if you know anything about the original ) be never explain and well beyond me . it after this flimsy set piece that the real story get go . the united state government have cut the universal soldier project budget and in the process anger seth ( the large artificial mainframe computer that control the universal soldier ) . naturally he would not be shut down without a fight . so that mean van damme have to go around and take all the new breed of universal soldier out . which sound like a fun idea for an action movie and a take on a sequel and but that doesn not stop it from become stupid a hell . for instance and one of the new universal soldier be play by bill goldberg . seem you can not go wrong cast a wrestler in an action movie . he big and he tough and right . wrong . van damme doesn not seem to have a problem wipe the floor with him . once . twice . three time . the point here lose on me . then there the breaking of glass . a rudimentary part of any action movie and but someone involve must have a glass fetish . you have to see the fight scene in particular . let not talk about how nobody cut themselves or at the very least slip . then to put the cherry on top of this train wreck and they have seth ( the computer ) secure a human body for himself and how appropriate it be when they make the villain black ( michael jai white ) . nothing work well than a white good guy fight a black bad guy it would seem . potentially offensive and just downright lame . he no replacement for dolph and either . universal soldier 2 be a lousy sequel . it loud and it dumb and it doesn not care . the original wasn not anything poetic and but it make a simple sort of sense with a science fiction element and it entertain on a basic level . the sequel doesn not . they do however keep the running time under ninety minute and somehow find a way to squeeze in a strip club sequence . so give credit where credit be due .