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.
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Title: Soldier (1998)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kurt Russell | ... | Todd 3465 | |
| Jason Scott Lee | ... | Caine 607 | |
| Jason Isaacs | ... | Colonel Mekum | |
| Connie Nielsen | ... | Sandra | |
| Sean Pertwee | ... | Mace | |
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Jared Thorne | ... | Nathan |
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Taylor Thorne | ... | Nathan |
| Mark Bringelson | ... | Rubrick | |
| Gary Busey | ... | Church | |
| K.K. Dodds | ... | Sloan | |
| James Black | ... | Riley | |
| Mark De Alessandro | ... | Goines | |
| Vladimir Orlov | ... | Romero | |
| Carsten Norgaard | ... | Green | |
| Duffy Gaver | ... | Chelsey | |
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In a futuristic society, some people are selected at birth to become soldiers, and trained in such a manner that they become inhuman killing machines. One of the most succesfull and older of these soldiers (Russell) is pitted against a new breed of soldiers, and after the confrontation is believed to be dead. His body is left behind in a semi-abandoned colonial planet, where everything is peaceful, and he is taught about the other aspects of life. But eventually he has to fight the new breed of soldiers again, this time to defend his new home... Written by Parca Mortem <icy_shadow@rocketmail.com>
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Left for dead on a remote planet for obsolete machines and people, a fallen hero has one last battle to fightMotion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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23 October 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$60,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$6,447,237, 25 October 1998Gross USA:
$14,594,226Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Female Voice: [to audience of very young boys] A soldier does not speak until spoken to by a superior officer. A soldier shows no mercy. Mercy is weakness. Weakness is death. A soldier...
[squealing pig led in for slaughter]
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Written by David Wyndorf
Produced by David Wyndorf and Matthew Hyde (as Matt Hyde)
Performed by Monster Magnet
Courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.
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Kurt Russell sustained a broken ankle during the first week of filming, and got a week off. When he came back, all of the scenes where he was laying down were filmed. They followed that with the sitting-down scenes, then the standing-still scenes. Finally, the action scenes were shot. The last scene filmed was the "running" scene between Todd and Caine 607 near the beginning of the movie. See more »Goofs
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[first lines]Female Voice: [to audience of very young boys] A soldier does not speak until spoken to by a superior officer. A soldier shows no mercy. Mercy is weakness. Weakness is death. A soldier...
[squealing pig led in for slaughter]
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Although rated "Not under 18" by the FSK in Germany, this version still contains numerous cuts to reduce violence. The "Not under 16" version removes or shortens nearly every violent part. See more »Soundtracks
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OK, so Soldier isn't deep and meaningful like Blade Runner or as big budget as Terminator 2 but on the whole I found it quite enjoyable.
The fact that Kurt Russell stayed in character not speaking and being virtually emotionless made the moments when his humanity broke through all the more poignant. I found his portrayal of restricted emotional development more touching than Arnie's in the T films (and before I get comments yes I know that Arnie was a cyborg and Kurt was human but the premise put forward by both films was the same).
So to the film itself, a reasonable US/Brit cast are able to flesh out this little story. Not really sure if Gary Busey and his two deputies were baddies or goodies, so was unable to decide whether I liked them or not. The colony was a little more realistic neither a misguided bunch of peace loving/gullible/cowardly hicks who get wiped out from the get go nor a group of subversive aggressive terrorists paranoid about offworlders and each other.
Kurt Russell is good and unlike other comments I do not feel this will have a negative impact on his career (unlike maybe Escape from LA - sequels are such fickle creatures!). Sean Pertwee has really done his late father proud by continuing the families noble Sci-Fi lineage. And the rest of the cast helped flesh out this pathetic band of people making the most of a bad situation and not doing too badly.
If you see this on your TV schedule I would recommend giving it a chance. I don't think you will be disappointed.