A waste of snappy set decoration!
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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
Reviews for Soldier
An insipid science fiction action yarn that makes you long for the realism of Pigs in Space.
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Derivative, dreary and painfully silly!
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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.
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This is a blood-and-bullet fest, tediously filled with lots of breaking glass, neck-crunching and spine-twisting action, and flamethrowers.
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It plays even worse than it sounds.
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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.
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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.
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Action is everything in this sinewy, visually impressive sci-fi military adventure!
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The action is strictly routine.
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Top CriticWith 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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The trick is that it could have been a treat.
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