A waste of snappy set decoration!
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... 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 there, he begins to learn about the kinder, gentler aspects of life, until the soldiers return to put an end to him once and for all. [More]
Starring: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee
Starring: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee, Michael Chiklis, Gary Busey, Jason Isaacs
Director: Paul Anderson
Director: Paul Anderson
Screenwriter: David Webb Peoples
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
Composer: Joel McNeely
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Reviews for Soldier
An insipid science fiction action yarn that makes you long for the realism of Pigs in Space.
Those 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.
This is a blood-and-bullet fest, tediously filled with lots of breaking glass, neck-crunching and spine-twisting action, and flamethrowers.
It's a big, clanging, brutal, actioner in which we search the murk in vain for the sparks of humanity the moviemakers keep promising us.
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.
Action is everything in this sinewy, visually impressive sci-fi military adventure!
With all the charisma and liveliness of a tree, [Russell] gives a wooden performance as a wooden character. Where's the art in that?
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