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About as much fun as passing a kidney stone
Author: mikerichards from Milton Keynes, Bucks, UK
28 November 2001
The veterans of the most terrible experiences are not boastful people, when asked about their recollections they might nod their head, swallow a gulp and say 'I don't want to talk about it.'Please understand when I say 'I don't want to talk about it.''Soldier' is quite possibly the worst movie in history, it sets new depths for bad plotting, excruciating acting and dreadful direction. Words alone cannot describe just how bad it is.Although NYYYYYYERRRGH! comes pretty close.
Whichever way you look at it (and I advise you not to look at it at all) this movie is capable of inflicting lasting psychological damage on the unprepared. If you want to be prepared for it try chloroform during the opening credits.This is a buttock-clenchingly terrible film. 'Soldier''s name should be mentioned in hushed tones whenever more than two movie fans are gathered together. It should serve as a reminder that even if 'Rocky IV' was loud, horribly fascistic and unwatchable; it was never *THIS* loud, horribly fascistic and unwatchable.
It is rumoured that if you play 'Soldier' backwards you get a good movie. This is not true, you just get an unfathomably bad movie - in reverse.
Do not watch this movie.
Do not be tempted to rent this movie.
Certainly do not buy this movie.
Even if its buy one - get one free.
Do not watch if you are a big fan of Kurt Russell.
*Especially* if you are a big fan of Kurt Russell.
Just one final question.
'Who do I sue first?'
Author: adamz-2 from USA
26 October 1998
This movie can't make up its mind. It's billed as an action flick, tries to get deep and sensitive... It's just plain stupid! I can't even begin to say how awful it is. I think Attack of the Killer Tomatoes had a better storyline! Your money would be better spent on buying a bottle of booze for an alcoholic. If you see this movie don't say I didn't warn you!
Author: anonymous from Los Angeles
30 May 1999
This movie sucked in the worst way possible. It borrows parts from other sci-fi movies and rearranges it in the most atrocious way. Granted, there were some good effects, but effects alone don't make a movie. The plot could've been plucked from some episode of one of the numerous sci-fi shows on TV. Come to think of it, Soldier should have been a made-for-TV movie. It sure as hell looked like one.
Avoid this stinker at all cost.
Author: Cervaise from Planet Earth
26 October 1998
Anderson is the director of "Soldier." His previous films include "Event Horizon" and "Mortal Kombat." Based on those, and now especially on the incompetent, amateurish mess that is "Soldier," it's pretty clear that he doesn't have the first idea how to tell a story, or even how to make a good movie.
He wastes an interesting premise, from screenwriter David Webb Peoples (the writer of "Blade Runner" and "Unforgiven," the latter an Oscar-winner). He wastes a surprisingly effective performance by Kurt Russell, who does a remarkable job showing the human feeling awakening beneath the stoic, near-robotic surface of the trained-from-birth title character. (What he's doing in this turkey, we'll never know.) He wastes the talents of a highly experiences artistic and technical crew, all of whom of have done much better work in previous films.
He wastes them by making an inept and frequently even laughable grade-Z action snoozer. The plotting is clumsy, the subtext obvious -- and I don't know when I've seen a movie so clearly expensive that looks so cheap. Visually, it's like an ultra-low-budget made-for-cable flick, something on the level of a late-80's Jean Claude Van Damme vehicle you might see on Showtime at 3am. This cheap look is difficult to reconcile with the fact that they obviously spent gobs of money on the thing, but somehow Anderson pulls it off.
A big, stupid, post-Apocalyptic action movie is one of the easiest genres to pull off. "Waterworld" was bad, but at least it was marginally watchable. "Soldier" is absolutely awful, and Paul Anderson demonstrates he can't even do a brainless testosterone movie. Catch it when it shows up on MST3K in a couple of years, but for now, avoid, avoid, avoid.
All I can say is why did I spend six bucks to see this. The final scene induced nightmare visions of Ripley holding Newt in Aliens. Oh and by the way can you say MATTE PAINTINGS children why sure you can! Oh wait no you can't there is no dialogue in this movie.
Author: Drambuie from Halifax, NS
1 November 1998
Incredibly disappointing.
Some of the reviews, I read before going to the cinema compared Soldier to Blade Runner and Terminator. The only thing they really have in common is that they are set in the future and have emotionless heros. Soldier was filled with gratuitous violence, something I don't usually have a problem with when it has a purpose in the plot, but in this instance it was quite unnecessary.It was so bad that I walked out of the theatre half way through the movie, just as Kurt is about to defend the colony from the evil soldiers.
I'm not a Paul W.S. Anderson basher - that is, I think he's a generally poor director but I don't devote my life to criticizing him endlessly on Internet message boards - and I think he's at least handled the visual aspects of most of his movies quite well (hate it or not, "AvP" - which I didn't care for - was atmospherically in-touch with the other movies, and "Event Horizon" felt like an "Alien" sequel itself).But really. This movie is absolutely terrible. It's easily Paul's worst movie, which is saying quite a lot. I'm even a decent fan of Kurt Russell so for me to say his performance sucks beyond belief here would be like a Jim Carrey fan admitting Carrey is too over the top in his earlier comedies - it's not going to happen.
The movie basically rips off every futuristic/apocalyptic action movie you can think of, including "Alien," "Blade Runner," "The Terminator" and of course Kurt's "Escape from New York." The problem is there's no substance here.The direction is slipshod and lazy - the action scenes are boring and none of the characters stand out at all. The hero is a dull, emotionless waste of space who has one facial expression preserved throughout the movie: The Kurt Russell "Cold Stare." (tm) You'll know what I mean if you've seen a Kurt Russell movie before.
Anyway, if you're a Paul basher then you'll hate this. If you're not a Paul basher you'll still hate it. I don't have a problem with simplistic action movies - but at least make them ENTERTAINING! I was dead bored watching this.
Soldier is a gruesome story of a soldier who has been replaced by people who have been designed and shaped into being top class soldiers. The violence in this movie is horrific. There is so much violence in fact that the main character Kurt Russell has only about 5 words to say in the whole movie. I'm sure the script writer had a point to this story when writing it but it didn't transfer onto paper. Actually I would think that the script would be about a page long and the screenplay 1000 pages long. There's really nothing to it. After an hour of watching Soldier I was very very very restless and was contemplating quitting the movie, but I stayed and just became even more restless. My advice to the people who are thinking of watching Soldier, DON'T!!!!
This movie is so terrible, there's no one I can recommend it to. Kurt Russel is staring into nowhere for about the half of the movie, the script has no original dialogs or events.
I counted: Russel says 10 sentences in this tragic work. Mostly things like "Yes, sir!".
I gave it a 1 out of 10
Author: Martini-17 from Gothenburg, Sweden
28 June 1999
This movie stinks!
I thought i had seen some bad movies, but this one tops my list. Everything about this movie is bad from the acting to the sets. On the paper it all seems like a good Sci-Fi movie, but belive me it's only on the paper. We have all seen it before: The single hero who gets rejected and takes revenge. Kurt Russell must have been in desperate need for money.
