Rating: Summary: The best thing about this movie was its story line. Review: Background:I am a 24 year old male engineering and computer science student living in SC. I do have a large humanities background. Overview: I gave this movie a 7 out of 10. WARNING: I revel quite a bit of the plot detail in the review below so be careful if you want to be fresh when you watch it. The best thing about this movie was its story line. It has a great plot. Basically I don't like the super-soldier movie but this one was interesting. The idea is simple: In the future the government decides to build the perfect soldier. They do this by selecting children from birth and then raising them from birth to adult-hood to be perfect soldiers. These soldiers have been in many wars and always gotten the job done. Eventually the government decides to do one better and make and pick candidates from conception instead of just birth and then enhance their DNA. The government replaces the first generation perfect soldier with this years model. The leader of the old model is dumped on a remote dump planet, basically your ordinary everyday ol' trash can planet. There he is taking in by the colonist who crash landed their years ago. They teach him he is more than just a soldier. The generals decide the new soldiers aren't battle tested enough and just happen to decide to do some field training on the dump planet. And use the colonist as target practice... I will not spill the ending for you but that is where things really start to get interesting. The movie serves as a nice warning as what really could happen if the desire for a perfect soldier were ever taken too seriously. Or if the desire for the perfect child were ever taken too seriously by parents. The leader of the old school soldiers would have never gotten his humanity back if it hadn't been for his "surrogate parents". There is a good look at group social interactions through out the whole movie too. What people will do right and wrong to fit in and belong. Be sure to check out my other reviews. Thanks.
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Rating: Summary: One of the poorest science fiction movies I have ever seen! Review: Well, except for Ed Woods movies. This movie was almost unwatchable. The acting was about as good as a high school play. The storyline was a diaster. This movie could have been so much more. Then there is Kurt Russel. What on earth was he thinking when he accepted this part. Reel Two Dialogue Two- Shoot, Soldier Grut. Shoot, Soldier Grut. Well, that about sums it up for this diaster. I waisted my $3.00 on this video. Thank goodness I didn't drop $7.00 dollars at the movies.
Rating: Summary: Whiz Bang Ending But it misses the mark. Review: Well after watching a wonderfully violent, strangely poetic ending I found myself liking this film alot more than I did the first hour into it. They try to make us like the main character who has no personality and they try to make us care for the community he falls into, but the film is so full of cliches and poor characterization that the first hour meanders and the ending though fun and exciting , a bit more hollow than I'd like.
Rating: Summary: Misses a chance at character development and plot Review: I'll be brief. Mr. Russell's lines total and words per line count in the single digits. If the screenwriter and director had developed the potential of the characters or the plot concepts introduced they might have had a movie here. Sadly, this one is only a shadow of what it could be.
Rating: Summary: I'd Rather Be Shot Review: I thought this film would be with the likes of Blade Runner or Starship Troopers (Which wasn't that bad!) . It wasn't and I apologize to both Ridley Scott, Philip K. Dick (May he rest in peace), and to Paul Verhoven for thinking that this gory trash could compare. The plot I never found. Kurt Russel shoots people, a lot of them. After the first scene, War of the Six Cities I believe, the gunplay got annoying and disturbing. Everything is just annilihated or gunned down in no interesting way. If they insisted on having all this pointless and depressing death and copying every better film, couldn't they have recycled the eccentric death of Dr. No or Hugo Drax? Have I said enough? The violence got to me in twenty minutes. I'm one of the many people who thinks that people are somewhat smarter than to kill people on the streets since they saw it at the movies. I popped the cassette out of the VCR and would've burned it if I didn't need to return it. If I had the choice of watching this film again, I'd chose to be one of the many people who are gunned down.
Rating: Summary: Did Ed Wood directed this movie? Review: Down below you 'll see the commentery of my comerade Tevfik with whom we 've seen this movie together. He already talked about how funny it was to see a very bad movie.I consider this movie as the worst i 've ever seen in my life . The movie doesnt mean any thing and it doesnt have any good points. Some movies have good points and bad points , you can say the script was very bad but special fx saved the day. But it is not like this at Soldier. You can see better sepecial effects while playing Atari version of Moonpatrol.I generally like Russle's acting but in that movie there was nothing to act i think Kurt was unnecessery for the movie a good crafted wood would do the trick.I hope they stop making that bad movies ... And i cannot finish without prpmpting my best regards to Ed Wood . He was a great man . Thanks to him for inspiring the producers of that film.
Rating: Summary: pretty good Review: This film was some what enjoyable. I didn't like the idea of kurt russel hardly saying one word in the movie, but the action was good. The movie picked up a lot in the last half hour, and before that was entertaining but dragged on when Russel was in the community helping out.
Rating: Summary: Horrible Review: My one criteria for a bad movie: did I fall asleep? Soldier bothered me so much, I had to turn off the VCR. It was horrible.
Rating: Summary: Not worth the room in a dirty garbage can Review: Avoid this movie like you would encountering a dog foaming at the mouth: stay away- stay far away- you have been warned.
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