![]() ![]() Soldier isn’t deep but it has a solid hook, and Kurt Russell is in full action-hero mode, which is always fun. Lacking back-up or the high-tech weapons he previously had at his disposal in the military, Todd launches guerilla warfare against the enhanced soldiers, going into full Predator-mode before a rain-soaked battle with Caine that should be taught in film school. But his newfound peace is short-lived when the genetically engineered soldiers land on the planet to use it as a training ground.īecause the world is listed as being uninhabited, the soldiers are tasked by Colonel Mekum (Jason Isaacs) with wiping out the colonists as a training exercise. He learns what it means to be part of a community, to feel emotion, and to care for others. ![]() Mace (Sean Pertwee) and Sandra (Connie Nielsen) welcome Todd into their family. ![]() Todd is dumped on the wasteland planet Arcadia 234, where he is given shelter by a colonist couple also stranded on the planet. Todd and his fellow soldiers from the 1996 program are demoted and discarded. But in the years since, the military has developed a new breed of soldiers, genetically engineered and entirely lacking in all emotion except pure rage, led by physically perfect Caine 607. In 2036, Todd is the best soldier to emerge from the program, overseen by Captain Church (Gary Busey). One of these soldiers is Todd (whose younger self is played by none other than Kurt Russell’s son, and John Walker himself, Wyatt Russell.) They know of no world outside the training facility and follow no one except their military commanders. In 1996, a new government military training program takes orphans from birth and trains them to be disciplined killers. Soldier is really all about the action sequences, particularly a final battle in the rain between Russell’s Sergeant Todd and Jason Scott Lee’s Caine 607 - but we’re getting ahead of ourselves a little bit. The story isn’t entirely original, but the always-great Kurt Russell is compelling enough to sell this nu-metal version of John Carter. It’s a meat and potatoes action sci-fi movie, the kind Anderson would become best known for. Dick, Soldier is fundamentally un-Dickian. Dubbed a “spin-off sidequel” to Blade Runner, and containing numerous references to the works of Phillip K. Soldier is a 1998 film written by David Webb Peoples and directed by Paul W.S. But oh, what a brilliant spectacle it was, one that’s worth digging through the wreckage to revisit. It was a box office failure that fell so quickly it burned up upon reentry. In 1998, before The Matrix entirely rewrote the rules of science fiction blockbusters for the 21st century, a movie came along and dared to ask, “What if we did Commando with genetically engineered soldiers and set it in space?” Such a feat would inevitably become one of the biggest movies in the world, right? Wrong. Demolition Man, Stargate, Timecop, all films you might hesitate to call classics of the genre, yet significant all the same, even if mostly due to nostalgia. The ‘90s took many of the heady science fiction concepts of the ‘80s, alongside its muscle-bound action heroes, and strung them together in packages that weren’t often neat but were highly entertaining. But to accomplish such a feat, you’d have to be B-movie virtuoso Paul W.S. But you can take a 15-year old script from its screenwriter and lean as far away from Blade Runner as possible while still setting it, loosely, in the same universe. Timecop remains Van Damme's highest-grossing film as a lead actor (his second to break the $100 million barrier for a worldwide gross), becoming a cult classic with fans, and (though met with mixed reviews) it is generally regarded as one of Van Damme's better films by critics.How do you top Blade Runner ? Well, you don’t. The story follows an interconnected web of episodes in the agent's life as he fights time-travel crime and investigates the politician's plans. It also stars Ron Silver as a rogue politician and Mia Sara as Melissa Walker, the agent's wife. Federal agent in 2004, when time travel has been made possible. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Max Walker, a police officer in 1994 and later a U.S. The film is based on Timecop, a story created by Richardson, written by Verheiden, and drawn by Ron Randall, which appeared in the anthology comic Dark Horse Comics, published by Dark Horse Comics. Richardson also served as executive producer. Timecop is a 1994 American science fiction action film directed by Peter Hyams and co-written by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden. ![]()
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