plays main antagonist "Mentor", who was introduced at the end of the previous film. The character's real name (Gerard Risco) is a backronym, as the G.R. prefix found in each UniSol's identifier is revealed to be derived from his initials. In the novelization of the first film's script by Robert Tine, G.R. stood for Grave Registration. The ending was left open for a potential regular series. Three syndicators had reportedly expressed interest at the time of filming, but it did not materialize. ReleaseUniversal Soldier III: Unfinished Business premiered on television on The Movie Channel, a sister channel of Showtime, on 24 October 1998. It was released on VHS by Paramount Home Video on 13 July 1999.Unfinished Business received a 2002 DVD release by TVA Films in Canada, as part of a double feature that also includes the previous installment Brothers in Arms. Some German home video versions of the film are sold as Neu Bearbeitete Fassung (Newly Edited Version), but this merely indicates that they are cut for violence. Reception Critical response Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business a 0% approval rating based on 4 reviews, with an average rating of 4.4/10. Among reviewers not referenced by the main aggregators, reception was also poor. VideoHound rated the film one and a half on a scale of zero to four, slightly lower than Part II. Bulletproof Action similarly decreed that "Brothers in Arms was no masterpiece [...] But things still managed to go downhill in Unfinished Business". In a mild dissent, The Action Elite found the film "awful", albeit "kind of better" than Part II. Moria Reviews also rated the film marginally higher than the previous installment, but still found fault with Jeff Woolnough's "annoyingly posed and affected" direction. Creature Features: The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Guide'' gave the picture two stars out of five. TV Guide also gave it two out of five stars. The publication praised West and Battaglia's chemistry, but ultimately felt that the film "[wasn't] great entertainment". References External links 1998 television films 1998 films 1990s science fiction action films 1990s English-language films Showtime (TV network) films Television sequel films American science fiction action films Films about the United States Army Universal Soldier (film series) Films directed by Jeff Woolnough 1990s American films