Sergeant Todd (Russell) is a veteran soldier for the an elite group of the armed forces of Earth. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors who lead out a peaceful existence on the planet. The peace is soon broken as the new breed of soldiers lands to eliminate the colony, which Sergeant Todd must defend. A soldier trained from birth is deemed obsolete and dumped on a waste planet where he is reluctantly taken in by a community of defenseless, stranded wayfarers. This movie isn't as bad as some people claim. There are many way worse movies, it just depends on what you are in the mood to see. This movie is a nice red-meat futuristic "Rambo" movie. Even though others says it's a collage of other movie themes I find that most movies can be compared to some others in the past. That's a review "copout" to claim this movie (or any other) isn't original enough.<br/><br/>Just check your brain at the door and enjoy a decent shoot-em-up. Be amazed that 'Soldier' turned out as good as it did, considering the unfortunate director to which it was assigned. From my understanding the original script should have indicated something of a 'Blade Runner' sequel, and completely worthy of that title, something in the vein of a 'Total Recall' with a military industrial focus. Of course, that was helmed by the master of brutal, smart dystopians Paul Verhoeven, where 'Soldier' was foolishly disposed of in the puerile cinematic rubbish bin known as Paul WS Anderson. As it stands, a masterpiece pared down to it's most base, mindlessly referential and shallow form, is still the best work of this completely uninspiring director. In the DVD commentary for 'Soldier', Anderson mentions that since the settlers' community was set on a garbage planet, the idea was to have all sorts of props from other films, as in garbage from other movies. That couldn't have been more unintentionally self aware, because there's no better way to describe his work than a garbage dump of ideas from superior sources. His mind is where stolen ideas go to be thrown away and soiled, never to be fresh again! <br/><br/>The best efforts of all the fine actors and visual designers assembled for this misfire add to the disappointment; Kurt Russel must have been pining for another 'Escape From New York' when he trained for 18 months, to get into the best shape of his flabby life. But collaboration is the mother of wasted potential. Nobody could have known what a remarkably superficial powerwash Paul "Wasted Script" Anderson was capable of performing on this, he could turn Kafka's 'The Trial' into common John Grisham style pablum.<br/><br/>I still like 'Soldier', I have some genuine affection for its goofy ineptness. It has some brilliant concepts and ingenious allegory hidden in it, VERY WELL HIDDEN, like a rose bush crushed under the knobby wheel of a military Hummer. The excellent set design, the great, often campy performances combined with my teenage nostalgia for it, almost allow me to forgive the tragic waste of ideas, and the obnoxious, blustery derivative action and tacky digital effects gimmicks. It's like 'Brave New World' meets 'Apocalypse Now' meets a lobotomy with a rusty steak knife smeared with methamphetamine and cooking lard. Clearly Paul Anderson was a star pupil at the same George Lucas film school that Zack Snyder and Michael Bay graduated from.<br/><br/>For all of us who have cut our teeth on witty, socially conscious exploitation films, and the elegant and irreverent Roger Corman productions, where humour and insight were folded into a genre mold with craft and inventiveness, abandon all hope. Studio productions can in essence be the excruciating antonym to that, where ideas and wit are discarded for needlessly bloated genre clichés, and a film like this becomes an arduous tedious process of imagining what could have been. Many have accepted the coercion of studio market saturation, and adopted the pitiful, defeated anti-intellectualism whereby familiarity is effectively calculated in order to maximize the commercial appeal of a movie product, and the consumer validation comes in the form of trite slogans such as "turn your brain off and enjoy the ride." Well it is your prerogative to do so, but don't complain when that ride they take you for leads to an oven or a GAS CHAMBER (metaphorically speaking?)!
Soldier is a violent science fiction action film starring Kurt Russell as Sargeant Todd, an cold hardened space marine, whom was chosen at birth to be a soldier, whom is dumped and left to die on Arcadia 234, a garbage planet, when he is knocked unconscious in a fight with Caine 607 (Jason Scott Lee), a genetically engineered new breed of soldier. On the planet, Todd is befriend and nursed back to health by the survivors of a crashed spaceship, that have set up a colony on the planet and Todd struggles to adjust to living a normal life, due to his conditioning and training as a soldier. But, when Colonel Meckham (Jason Issacs), Caine 607 and the genetic engineered soldier's commanding officer orders Caine 607 and the genetic engineered soldiers to eliminate the crash survivors, as part of an training routine. Todd uses his combat skills and decides to protect the crash survivors and takes on the genetic engineered soldiers in a one man war. As an aside, writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson has stated that as far as he is concerned, his film Soldier is a 'sidequel' to Blade Runner, as it occurs in the same fictional milieu as Scott's film, although it is not actually a follow-up (Soldier was co-scripted by Blade Runner screenwriter David Peoples).<br/><br/>Reference- One of the battle names tattooed on Todd's arm. Tannhauser Gate, is from the speech Rutger Hauer recites near the end of the movie Directors commentary and a trailer a5c7b9f00b tamil movie Pinochestein 3d free downloadLost Boys hd mp4 downloadI Really like You 720p torrentSahara full movie in hindi 720p downloadSister\u0027s Dirge downloadDuel of the Dimwits movie mp4 downloadBattle Beyond the Stars movie download in mp4A Million Ways to Lose a Million Dollars full movie hd 1080p downloadSnowflake in tamil pdf downloadAxwell Ingrosso: Can't Hold Us Down movie download hd
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