The futuristic, interplanetary showdown pits an outdated career commando (an awkward but endearingly taciturn Kurt Russell) against his beefier and more lethal successor (a bald, buff Jason Scott Lee). In round one -- a deadly training demonstration -- Russell's conditioned-from-birth sergeant gets his ass handed to him by Lee's genetically engineered über-trooper. Left for dead on a barren, deep-space junkyard, Russell is taken in by the planet's raggedy inhabitants, who nurse him back to health and get him in touch with his human side. Of course there's a round two, when Lee and his legion of robotic exterminators storm the planet and Russell, recharged by his new-found emotion, goes on the warpath, proving that the older model can still blood-let like there's no tomorrow. Soldier does offer a few good mano-a-mano testosterone moments, and the set designs are ultra-cool, but there's too little character development and no reason to care.