Director Paul W.S. Anderson's trippy, futuristic sci-fi film follows a cadre of men, born and bred to be shock troops in battle, who are made obsolete by a new race of genetically engineered soldier. Sgt. Todd (Kurt Russell) is one of the rejects left for dead on a junkyard planet.
There, he slowly rediscovers his humanity while helping a community of human castaways battle the new breed of soldier threatening to wipe them out.
This film would have been terrible had it not been for Kurt Russell as a futuristic Rambo. Instead it could be a guilty pleasure. Still laughably bad but strangely enjoyable to boot.
In a futuristic society, some people are selected at birth to become soldiers, and trained in such a manner that they become inhuman killing machines. One of the most succesfull and older of these... more
In a futuristic society, some people are selected at birth to become soldiers, and trained in such a manner that they become inhuman killing machines. One of the most succesfull and older of these soldiers (Russell) is pitted against a new breed of soldiers, and after the confrontation is believed to be dead. His body is left behind in a semi-abandoned colonial planet, where everything is peaceful, and he is taught about the other aspects of life. But eventually he has to fight the new breed of soldiers again, this time to defend his new home... (1998)