This is a film I was going into with the mindset, ''I liked it when I was younger, it's probably not that good now.'' But it turns out I'm wrong. It's still a pretty good movie. The action scenes work really well, it's pacing is decent, the middle is a little odd with a garbage Town people , but it never gets ridiculous and they don't get too annoying.
Kurt Russell is just so goddamn solid in this movie.
He really does make you believe that he's been a soldier for the last 30 years and that he is never known Joy in his entire life.
One military-industrial complexe. Two super soldier Programes: one bread from birth, the other genetically modified . Which one is superior? Which one can get the job done?
It seems naturally unfair when you put the significantly younger Jason Scott Lee against the supposedly 36 to 40 year old Kurt Russell.
But they pair the two of them against each other. And they decide the the genetically Superior option is the far better option. So they take Kurt Russell and he's other Soldier buddies (who died in the fighting) and throw them into a giant garbage planet. I like to refer to it as "Superman 4" planet.
Now Kurt Russell is injured on the garbage planet and must rely on the kindness of strangers .
And now we get to spend all our time with the garbage people. It kind of feel like the Star Trek insurrection tribe only not quite a stupid. They're not up their own ass thinking there the greatest thing in the world, I mean how could you in a place like this.
He really does make you believe that he's been a soldier for the last 30 years and that he is never known Joy in his entire life.
One military-industrial complexe. Two super soldier Programes: one bread from birth, the other genetically modified . Which one is superior? Which one can get the job done?
It seems naturally unfair when you put the significantly younger Jason Scott Lee against the supposedly 36 to 40 year old Kurt Russell.
But they pair the two of them against each other. And they decide the the genetically Superior option is the far better option. So they take Kurt Russell and he's other Soldier buddies (who died in the fighting) and throw them into a giant garbage planet. I like to refer to it as "Superman 4" planet.
Now Kurt Russell is injured on the garbage planet and must rely on the kindness of strangers .
And now we get to spend all our time with the garbage people. It kind of feel like the Star Trek insurrection tribe only not quite a stupid. They're not up their own ass thinking there the greatest thing in the world, I mean how could you in a place like this.
I'll say one thing they got right, the stupid child actor is a mute! Every single movie should take this to Heart, children should never be able to talk in a film 'unless it's focused specifically on children.'
We get Kurt Russell saving a man from being eaten up by a fresher . We get a weird montage involving our soldier learning basic Agriculture and living with people who aren't militarized Airheads. All to the tune of a very strange Enya rip off .
So we get to the first real confrontation in the movie. Kurt Russell is beating the ever-living hell out of a giant piece of Steel while simultaneously having flashbacks about one of the 12 Wars he was in. Now if I was someone living in the garbage Village I would know better than to immediately go up to the guy, grab them on the side and yell;
We get Kurt Russell saving a man from being eaten up by a fresher . We get a weird montage involving our soldier learning basic Agriculture and living with people who aren't militarized Airheads. All to the tune of a very strange Enya rip off .
So we get to the first real confrontation in the movie. Kurt Russell is beating the ever-living hell out of a giant piece of Steel while simultaneously having flashbacks about one of the 12 Wars he was in. Now if I was someone living in the garbage Village I would know better than to immediately go up to the guy, grab them on the side and yell;
Hey buddy how you doing!
You know he's a walking talking tin-can with little to no real social skills. You can't get upset at him when he tries to crush you under a wheel because you started him during one of his 15 billionth war flashbacks.
Kurt Russell wakes from a dream to see the dumb kid in front of him. The kid hands him a puzzle and then turns around only to encounter a strange green snake , Kurt Russell grabs a boot and tosses it to the kid. Implying that he should take the boot and beat the crap out of the snake.
The father of the small boy kills the snake immediately and demands that Kurt Russell be kicked out of the town for reckless endangerment of his child. Now Kurt Russell is banished to the waste land where he must fend for himself.
However the tune of the parents soon changes when a very simalor snake trys to to kill the parents . The child grabs the snake and beats it to death with a giant shoe ''thus proving the capabilities and teachings of Kurt Russell''.
Now we become a proper action movie as the genetically modified soldiers land on the Superman 4 planet and start a merciless attack upon garbage Village, shooting and annihilate everyone. However it turns out that the genetically modified soldiers are not very smart, they're stronger than all get-out but they have absolutely no independe thought or instinct and work a little too much like a robots.
Kurt Russell wakes from a dream to see the dumb kid in front of him. The kid hands him a puzzle and then turns around only to encounter a strange green snake , Kurt Russell grabs a boot and tosses it to the kid. Implying that he should take the boot and beat the crap out of the snake.
The father of the small boy kills the snake immediately and demands that Kurt Russell be kicked out of the town for reckless endangerment of his child. Now Kurt Russell is banished to the waste land where he must fend for himself.
However the tune of the parents soon changes when a very simalor snake trys to to kill the parents . The child grabs the snake and beats it to death with a giant shoe ''thus proving the capabilities and teachings of Kurt Russell''.
Now we become a proper action movie as the genetically modified soldiers land on the Superman 4 planet and start a merciless attack upon garbage Village, shooting and annihilate everyone. However it turns out that the genetically modified soldiers are not very smart, they're stronger than all get-out but they have absolutely no independe thought or instinct and work a little too much like a robots.
It's strange in a way, we have American* militarism and Nazi militarism both represented in the exact same Army. The soldiers bread from birth take on a very warlike 'win the day' mentality but are adequate in defending the civilian population (At least compared to their genetic counterparts) Why'll the higher echelons is more interested in killing everything they can find to test out the ability of its enhance super soldiers.
Now it's time for some guerrilla warfare Rambo-style. As Kurt Russell suits up to take down not one but 17 Genetically Enhanced Super-Soldiers.
And he does just that. Leaving only the original Super Soldier who beat him at the beginning of the movie. Now the two are going to have a heck of a battle. Kurt Russell's going to win , he's going to hook up with his old Soldiers, kill the commanding officer in charge of the enhanced Soldier program and take the garbage people off Superman 4 Planet. right as it's about to explode from a super weapon.
One of my favorite things about 'Soldier' is how chalant they are about their Planet destroying weapons. It most other science fiction movies they'd spend a considerable amount of time explaining or showing off their deadly destructive weapons and how wonderful they are.
Meanwhile in Soldier:
Do you have any of those planet-destroying weapons?
Yes sir! we have 15 of them, standard issue.
*That's the World War II U.S. military. As opposed to the modern American Military which in my opinion leads a little too close to the ''kill them all, God will know his own'' mindset.
And he does just that. Leaving only the original Super Soldier who beat him at the beginning of the movie. Now the two are going to have a heck of a battle. Kurt Russell's going to win , he's going to hook up with his old Soldiers, kill the commanding officer in charge of the enhanced Soldier program and take the garbage people off Superman 4 Planet. right as it's about to explode from a super weapon.
One of my favorite things about 'Soldier' is how chalant they are about their Planet destroying weapons. It most other science fiction movies they'd spend a considerable amount of time explaining or showing off their deadly destructive weapons and how wonderful they are.
Meanwhile in Soldier:
Do you have any of those planet-destroying weapons?
Yes sir! we have 15 of them, standard issue.
*That's the World War II U.S. military. As opposed to the modern American Military which in my opinion leads a little too close to the ''kill them all, God will know his own'' mindset.
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