Produced with its sequel Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business (1998) for Showtime/The Movie Channel as a miniseries meant as a backdoor pilot for a TV series.
One of the soldiers in the lab is called William Striker - a reference to the X-Men character William Stryker who also tried to develop a super-human soldier.
Riffed by Rifftrax (Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett) and released July 23, 2021.