1998 · sci-fi · action · drama
Soldier
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson1h 39m1998
Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors who lead out a peaceful existence. The peace is broken as the new soldiers land on the planet to eliminate the colony, which Sergeant Todd must defend.
Our read: Soldier (1998) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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