'Soldier' is one of the worst movies of science fiction plus action made in the last years. This is a repetitive statement, to be sure. But here the surprise in doing this exact statement is that the movie could be very much better.
In the cast you'll find some good actors (Kurt Russel and Gary Busey), an interesting premise - although not original, just remember 'Universal Soldiers' with Van Damme, a movie that is bad too, but better than this one - and even a middle budget. With these points of start, 'Soldiers' fails to be a gripping movie and even the story is completely full of outrageous flaws; for example, the people who lived in the abandoned planet, who are they? why are they there?.
The movie is just a tiresome conflict between the old soldier (played by Russel) and the genetic crafted soldier (played by Jason Scott Lee). Maybe the movie wanted to tell a story about the eternal battle between the old values and new values, tradition and technology, and these are good issues to be told in a movie. But the result is a violent movie that loses completely its direction, a story without intensity and, most of all, intelligence.
In the cast you'll find some good actors (Kurt Russel and Gary Busey), an interesting premise - although not original, just remember 'Universal Soldiers' with Van Damme, a movie that is bad too, but better than this one - and even a middle budget. With these points of start, 'Soldiers' fails to be a gripping movie and even the story is completely full of outrageous flaws; for example, the people who lived in the abandoned planet, who are they? why are they there?.
The movie is just a tiresome conflict between the old soldier (played by Russel) and the genetic crafted soldier (played by Jason Scott Lee). Maybe the movie wanted to tell a story about the eternal battle between the old values and new values, tradition and technology, and these are good issues to be told in a movie. But the result is a violent movie that loses completely its direction, a story without intensity and, most of all, intelligence.