Soldier

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Summary: Please stay away
Review: I'm sorry but I feel the need to protect the general public from this movie. Bad story, Bad acting, Bad action. Just bad. Don't waste your time.

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Summary: good action
Review: This movie was underrated but had some great action seens, Kurt Russell is badder(more hardcore) in this than he was in the Escape movies, he kicks serious a** in this. Check it out.

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Summary: Bleccch!
Review: If you ever saw that terrific B-movie, "Cyborg" with Jean-Claude van Damme, then you've seen "Soldier," one of the worst big-budget action movies ever made. Don't blame Kurt Russell. Maybe in pre-production it looked like a winner. I finally got so tired of these long, LONG close-ups of that battered, empty face staring, staringing into the camera, I had to close my eyes. So maybe I missed a few things. What was really hysterical is that Russell took out a complete platoon of Universal style soldiers, all of them wearing bullet-laser-rocket-proof suits with just plain old guns. The poor children and woman did nothing but simper and look at him longinly. This is the movie that was turned down by first (1) Ahnald Sch. (2) Bruce Willis 3. Jean-Claude Van Damme. Why, oh, why did Russell take it? This is what Van Damme does in his sleep. Down to the corny, choreographed fight scenes with a villanous muscle-head. HOrrible in every way. Understand they chopped out the best scenes, reshot others and still came up with something that makes even that Greatest of All Bad Movies "Armagaddon" look like "Lawrence of Arabia."

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Summary: Terrific film for those who understand and enjoy subtext.
Review: This may be Kurt Russell's best performance. The most difficult thing for an actor to get across to an audience is what is or isn't going on in his mind and heart. Kurt pulls it off in fine style from beginning to end including the realization that his "enemy" 607 is simply doing what he was bred to do...destroy whomever when ordered without question. Kurt's character feels and expresses the regret he feels even when breaking his antagonist's neck. "Soldiers deserve a soldier."

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Summary: Thy Did Someone Decided to Produce This Movie ?
Review: If there's only one reason that I'm giving 1 star to this movie that's because I couldn't give it '0' star. When I went to see this film with a couple of friends I almost died laughing. The acting is terrible. Kurt's character's word repertoire doesn't pass 10 words during all the movie. I'm thinking that with my Commodore 64 I could have done better special effects when I was 6 years old. And I'm still asking myself (and everyone who watches this movie) "Why someone had to produce a film like that and why did Kurt accepted to play this movie ?

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Summary: Boring!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Kurt was pulling a arnold job. I think he had about two lines of dialoge through out the intire movie. The story is pretty good.I'm sorry I purchased it. Should have rented it first.

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Summary: Better than Stallone, still falls short of Schwarzenegger...
Review: Nice idea that seems to be missing something. One of Russell's better movies, due to his lack of actual dialogue. There's still a little life in his waning career. Character typecasting is way overdone. The movie will NOT appeal to a multitude of groups; automatic to fans of Starship Troopers and Schwarzenegger's futuristic flix. Worth the money to rent, but not full theatre admission price.

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Summary: Kurt Russell is a Doom 95 raised sci-fi action man.
Review: The year is 1996. Recently born babies are apdopted by the US army to be New-born fighting machines, as they grow up they are educated about how to kill. And grow into adult-hood through wars in a lifetime of killing. In 2034, 38 year old Galactic conflicted Soldier Todd (Kurt Russell) a selected from birth man who has to live by soldier rules sense being adpoted by the army and fighting in Intergalactic wars. Finds himself re-placed by a soldier called Caine 607, who is a faster soldier in a group of much more stonger soldiers called "The Obsoletes" Todd is banished to a dead planet engulfed by a sea of garbage. And he is found wounded, by a group of forgotten colonists, and he is nursed back to health by a young woman called Sandra and her husband and mute son. Todd is trying to cope about life after the battlefield, and try to realize that they are not his enemies, and discovers the sexuality of Sandra, and trying to learn about life not being a soldier. But Todd is summoned to defend the colonists, when Caine 607 and his Obsoletes make a apperence on the planet and start attacking. Todd, with A chain gun from the computer game Doom 95 and some of the colonists defence weapons, he decides to war against "The Obsoletes" in order to save his new friends.

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Summary: If i like "No Escape" I like "Soldier"
Review: After seeing "Soldier" Kurt Russell is the Rambo of the Science fiction action storyline,Todd his character is much better than snake plissken. One of Russell's worst characters. But Soldier is more like the film "No Escape" (1994), if watch the movie, it's almost the same story. Like in No escape, a Convicted marine is banished to a prison island, after being banished from a prison for un-rehabed prisoners for trying to kill the kill warden. And finds himself among villagers fighting savage criminals. In Soldier, Russell stars as Sargent Todd, a smuggled from birth heroic soldier of a army of selected from birth commandos. Who has to live with rules sense childhood. Todd and his soldiers are terminated by a new soldier called Caine 607 (Jason Scott Lee) who is a strong memeber of soldiers called the obsoletes. summoned by Todd's EX general. Todd is dumped on a Garbage planet and is discovered by garbage outposted villagers, who are long forgotten. Caine 607 and the obsoletes turn up to terminate the outpost, And Todd is pitched up to defend his new family. and fight Caine 607 for revenge. The strong violence does make Kurt Russell look tougher than ever, and the special effects are awsome. "Soldier" is a sci-fi action that you'll have Kurt Russell in Rambo's shoes.

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Summary: One soldier against the dictatorship. -- Shirley Keller
Review: It's a 10. Superb acting by Kurt Russell; directed by Paul Anderson, genius behind _Blade Runner_. He captured the essence of dictatorship and its opposite: individualism. Initially the protagonist, Todd, follows orders, used as a means to the ends of the State, a fighting machine who's then discarded. But Todd survives being dumped on a heap of refuse on a desert planet, to make his way to a small settlement of free people. There he learns what it means to have selfish values and to love a woman. When the totalitarians return to threaten her, only Todd can destroy them. Fight scenes and interpersonal dynamics were masterfully done. This is not a simplistic action movie with bullets flying everywhere. This is action melded with intellectual strategy, melded with a deep philosophical message. A sci fi classic, right along with Blade Runner.