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Soldier
U/A (INDIA)
1998
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Soldier
Positive Reviews
7
Negative reviews
23
Average Rating
2.0
/5
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2.0
Done, done, done, done, and done.And I havent even mentioned the digital timer that counts down to bomb detonation.
EW
4.5
Films cant really go over the appropriated runtime, much less for something as inconsequential as plot exposition.
We Got This Covered
2.0
If nothing else, you cant accuse Soldier of taking its time getting to the action.
1.0
If you didnt 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.
E Film Critic
4.0
Lives change over any decade: theres no way of guessing where this film will lead us, and the patterns of storytelling we may be used to typical arcs ..
Telegraph
1.5
Their ridiculous ass kicking, masculine fantasies have severely compromised a genre that was once characterized by provocative ideas instead of action ..
San Francisco Chronicle
2.5
Action is everything in this sinewy, visually impressive sci fi military adventure!
San Francisco Chronicle
2.5
See it if you like brainless guns and explosions, and a good performance by Russell.
JoBlo
0.5
With a cheerful disregard for characterization and visual texture, Anderson relies on his cgi jocks and set dressers to flesh out David Webb Peopless ..
Village Voice
1.3
Despite the fantasy setting and aesthetic, its a human tale about relatable characters with real emotions.
ReelViews
2.0
Aside from that, however, it isnt a bad movie as long as you view it as myth.
Lariat
1.5
Although the second half is easy enough to sit through for the ample amounts of sheer wanton action violence (if youre into that sort of thing), it cl ..
Screen It
1.5
Watching an emotionless but intelligent nice guy defeat a band of stupid supermen sounds like it could be an absolute hoot, but this movie is far too ..
Film Journal International ..
1.3
To be fair, you dont go into a Kurt Russell movie expecting a thought provoking cinematic experience.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
0.5
In several eerie ways Soldier echoes The Postman, the collossal Kevin Costner turkey... and anyone who feels any nostalgia for that excruciating opus ..
Internet Reviews
3.0
Yet another video game for the big screen which has momentum and a terrific set going for it.
Internet Reviews
1.9
With all the charisma and liveliness of a tree, gives a wooden performance as a wooden character. Wheres the art in that
Internet Reviews
1.5
The timing is impossible.Setting Soldier further into the future wouldnt have affected the rest of its meager story one iota, and this total disregard ..
4.0
Unfairly dismissed by most critics as just another mindless, high body count shootem up, Soldier is actually an impressively mounted genre piece which ..
1.3
A sequel to I Know.. no more nor less than an effective formula genre piece was just about doomed from its inception.
Mr Brown Movies
2.5
Soldier wants to be an intense thriller with cerebral significance, but suffers from self seriousness and silly cliches.
Boxoffice Magazine
4.0
Electrifying moments of bombastic action and explosive bravado give this sometimes brutal, occasionally silly, but always diverting science fiction re ..
1.9
Yet the story is predictable and boring, and it packs way too much phony sentimentality.
Montreal Film Journal
1.0
SOLDIER Peopless screenplay is half Gattaca, with its vision of the future as devoid of character, and half The Postman, with a society of pathetic do ..
Film Quips Online
1.9
Even taken as a loud no brainer action movie youll find that Soldier ends rather abruptly and unsatisfyingly.
Scifi Movie Page
3.5
This appealing formulaic action adventure displays a lot of conviction in its not too flashy action scenes and a little levity in the gradual socializ ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
...poignancy doesnt interfere with director Andersons primary objective, which is to show people shooting each other and blowing stuff up.
Movie Metropolis
2.0
You end up hating the movie that started out so good, started out so intriguing.
Filmcritic.com
2.5
I doubt that Kurt Russell has ever had less dialogue to work with than he has in this film.
Globe and Mail
2.0
Soldier is just plain bad.Unlike many of those 1980s classics, its entirely humorless and the action sequences are thoroughly uninspired.
About Film
0.0
The closest thing the film ever gets to originality is in creating elaborate death sequences.
Cine Matter
1.5
David Snyders set design, David Tattersalls cinematography and the explosions are beautiful, but the movie lacks passion, characterization, and a sens ..
1.5
While humour is sorely lacking in Soldier, the brutalist sci fi tone holds throughout, and in the era of built in redundancy, its easy to get behind T ..
film-authority.com
4.5
Soldier finally deserves a reappraisal. The Kurt Russell starrer is actually a hugely entertaining and visually arresting piece of science fiction cin ..
1.5
Has there ever been a more insipid sci fi action film than Soldier Probably, although its hard to imagine.
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