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Soldier

1998

Paul W.S. Anderson

Kurt Russell, Connie Nielsen, Jason Scott Lee, Michael Chiklis ...

4.8

4,126

Sci-Fi. Action Talk about your bad day at the office. Sure, some people have been downsized or made redundant, but usually the thing that's replacing you isn't also trying to kill you. That's the premise of this movie about a genetically-engineered soldier stationed on a distant world who suddenly finds himself last year's model. The newer and more vicious soldiers who have rendered him obsolete also want to kill him. But soldier boy finds a community ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Empire	"Oh dear, oh dear... Kurt Russell and Gary Busey should really have known better. This is truly diar (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[It] quickly becomes as sticky and predictable as a mediocre episode of 'Star Trek'."	NEG
United States	Peter Stack SFGATE	"Action is everything in this sinewy, visually impressive sci-fi military adventure (...) It's a simple movie -- hang around for 85 minutes to watch the big mano-a-mano between hero and villain."	NEU
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Any cliche you can dream up for a futuristic action movie, any familiar big-budget epic you can think to rip off, 'Soldier' has gotten there first."	NEG

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