Soldier
After being defeated and left for dead by his genetically engineered replacements, Sergeant Todd must save a peaceful community from destruction by the same soldiers.
- Director:Paul W.S. Anderson
- Genre:Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
- Runtime:99 minutes
Cast
Kurt Russell : Todd 3465
Jason Scott Lee : Caine 607
Jason Isaacs : Colonel Mekum
Connie Nielsen : Sandra
Sean Pertwee : Mace
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In the near future, as part of a new military recruitment and training program (“Project Adam”), a group of infants are selected at birth to be raised as soldiers. Undergoing extreme mental and physical training, they become virtual sociopaths, with no understanding of anything except military routine and war. A priority of the conditioning is that these soldiers are forbidden to speak unless spoken to, and they address whomever they are speaking to, even women, as ‘sir’.
At age 40, Todd (Kurt Russell) is a hardened veteran of many battles, but he and his unit are about to be replaced. Colonel Mekum (Jason Isaacs) introduces a new group of genetically-engineered soldiers, designed with superior physical attributes and a complete lack of emotions (except aggression).
Todd’s unit’s commander, Captain Church (Gary Busey) insists on testing the “new” soldiers’ abilities against his own. But Todd, the unit’s best soldier, is no match for Caine 607 (Jason Scott Lee). In the final trial, a fight between Caine and three “old” soldiers, two of Todd’s comrades are killed, though Todd manages to gouge out one of Caine’s eyes before he is defeated. Todd apparently dies when he falls from a great height, but the body of a dead soldier cushions his fall, and his is simply knocked unconscious. Mekum orders their bodies dumped like garbage, and the remaining “old” soldiers are demoted to menial support roles.
Todd and his dead comrades are dumped on the surface of Arcadia 234, a waste disposal planet with dangerously high wind velocities. Though badly injured, Todd limps his way toward a colony of humans who crash-landed there twelve years earlier, and have managed to survive and build a society from the planet’s ubiquitous mountains of trash. Read more
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