Soldier is so mediocre, it might have been more mindless fun if it had been even worse.
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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
Top Critic[The] celluloid equivalent of the junkyard planet on which this piece of garbage is appropriately set.
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Inexplicably, David Webb Peoples, the screenwriter of Blade Runner and Unforgiven, is responsible for this awful mess
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David Snyder's set design, David Tattersall's cinematography and the explosions are beautiful, but the movie lacks passion, characterization, and a sense of humor.
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As action films go, Soldier is a bad gamble: it rolls snake eyes on every front.
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From its barren junkyard landscapes to Kurt Russell's thimbleful of spoken lines to the title itself, Soldier is so sparse it barely exists.
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For testosterone freaks only!
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With a cheerful disregard for characterization and visual texture, Anderson relies on his cgi-jocks and set dressers to flesh out David Webb Peoples's by-the-numbers script.
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Yet another video game for the big screen which has momentum and a terrific set going for it.
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When it comes to details like plot, character development, and genuine excitement, the film is lost in space.
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Top CriticYou end up hating the movie that started out so good, started out so intriguing.
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Even taken as a loud no-brainer action movie you’ll find that Soldier ends rather abruptly and unsatisfyingly.
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In several eerie ways 'Soldier' echoes "The Postman," the collossal Kevin Costner turkey... and anyone who feels any nostalgia for that excruciating opus should be in a mental-health clinic rather than a movie theater.
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Soldier is little more than dumb genre stuff!
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Top CriticAnderson's novel solution to slow-moving stretches is to add explosions. But when it comes to directing actors, he's at a loss.
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An unimaginative retreading of past cinematic successes!
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Skip it, if you don't like guns, explosions or Kurt Russell.
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Has there ever been a more insipid sci-fi action film than Soldier? Probably, although it's hard to imagine.
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Top CriticExcruciating!
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