Soldier . Tucson Weekly . 11-02-98

Soldier

DIRECTED BY: Paul Anderson

REVIEWED: 11-02-98

Marx once said that the proletariat must "safeguard itself against its own deputies and officials, by declaring them all, without exception, subject to recall at any moment." Wow, he could have written the script for Soldier, wherein a team of super-soldiers are replaced by newer, even superer soldiers, who go on an evil killing spree (as opposed to the good killing sprees of the original super-soldiers). See, while the original super-soldiers are nearly soulless automatons trained from birth only to blow things up and destroy human life, the newer, superer-soldiers are almost entirely soulless automatons, trained from before birth only to blow things up and destroy human life. Kurt Russell plays one of the original super-soldiers, who, while speaking only 62 words during the course of the film (Entertainment Weekly counted 69 words, but I stand by my figures), shows himself to be nearly almost human-like in defending some poor interstellar settlers against the superer-soldiers. The superer-soldiers, see, are all bald, whereas the super-soldiers have some hair. So they're, like, our friends. Caution: This film contains some scenes of hugging.

--DiGiovanna

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