Inexplicably, David Webb Peoples, the screenwriter of Blade Runner and Unforgiven, is responsible for this awful mess
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01/01/00
Soldier (1998)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:5
Rotten:45
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: A boring genre film and a waste of a good set.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Russell is a futuristic killing machine who becomes the target of a newer, even more vicious breed of killers. After a brutal confrontation, they leave him for dead on a semi-deserted planet. Once... [More]
Starring: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee
Director: Paul Anderson
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Reviews for Soldier
As action films go, Soldier is a bad gamble: it rolls snake eyes on every front.
01/01/00
Soldier is so mediocre, it might have been more mindless fun if it had been even worse.
01/01/00
Top CriticThose looking for an escape from the wearing bonds of logic and sensibility could do worse, though any film featuring a professional killer named 'Todd' is surely more fiction than science.
01/01/00
Soldier is little more than dumb genre stuff!
01/01/00
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03/24/02
Soldier wants to be an intense thriller with cerebral significance, but suffers from self-seriousness and silly cliches.
06/05/02
Excruciating!
01/01/00
This appealing formulaic action adventure (1998) displays a lot of conviction in its not-too-flashy action scenes and a little levity in the gradual socialization of Russell's character.
03/07/07
Top CriticIt's a big, clanging, brutal, actioner in which we search the murk in vain for the sparks of humanity the moviemakers keep promising us.
01/01/00
Top CriticA doggedly simple-minded diversion of rare purity.
10/15/02
An insipid science fiction action yarn that makes you long for the realism of Pigs in Space.
01/01/00
Yet another video game for the big screen which has momentum and a terrific set going for it.
01/01/00
Anderson's novel solution to slow-moving stretches is to add explosions. But when it comes to directing actors, he's at a loss.
01/01/00
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03/10/07
Top CriticSoldier seems destined for the trash heap!
01/01/00
If you didn't know any better, you would think I was about to describe the plot of a Chuck Norris or Jean Claude Van Damme straight to video film.
01/01/00
No review available.
07/25/02
A waste of snappy set decoration!
01/01/00
Top CriticFrom its barren junkyard landscapes to Kurt Russell's thimbleful of spoken lines to the title itself, Soldier is so sparse it barely exists.
01/01/00
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