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   Hello Arelor!   
      
   ** On Tuesday 16.03.21 - 04:18, Arelor wrote to HusTler:   
      
    >> Ar> But make no mistake, this film is a B-movie at heart and   
    >> Ar> you may expect lots of senseless action and killing,   
    >> Ar> because i the end of the day that is what fans are in   
    >> Ar> for.   
      
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    A> What I am saying is this movie has B - Movie production   
    A> values, nothing more, nothing less.   
      
    A> Kurt is the best thing in the whole film. Some of the   
    A> secondaries are actually quite good too.   
      
   I just finished watching it.  I don't think it fit a typical "B     
   movie" classification at all.   
      
   It was not unlike many other revenge films like Die Hard, or     
   Terminator.  Both of those had injections of humour and over-    
   acting that seemed to take the edge off some intensity.   
      
   I thought Soldier had excellent production values! The stage     
   design had good details.  The main character, Todd, was raised     
   like a machine, and Russell depicted that rather convincingly.      
   The scene where he's outcast, alone and gets emotional was     
   overdone - but the fault goes to the editors, because they show     
   Todd welling up to cry and then there is the trace of tears. But     
   then they cut to another sequence of the same thing in slow     
   motion - I thought that was overdone, unnecessary and sappy.   
      
   There was some rather fine casting.  You don't put Gary Busey     
   and Michael Chiklis in a movie and consider it a "B".  Busey was     
   cast as a tough but cheeky leader.  Chiklis characer was     
   basically a clown.   
      
   I think that a B movie is a film that is intended to be serious,     
   but fails in many ways - especially in the quality of the     
   acting.  Soldier was a something else.  The beginning of the     
   film covers the first 38 years of Todd's life rather well in     
   just the first 15 minutes or so. What is going in Todd's head     
   when he has to deal with the noises of the party was well     
   represented with the flashbacks. I'm glad that they give the     
   character too many lines to try and explain things like that -     
   the visuals were quite enough and effective.   
      
   Another thing.. you don't put in a song by Loreena McKennit in     
   part of the soundtrack and consider it a B movie!  I knew the     
   voice sounded very familiar when they played the song "Night     
   Ride Across The Caucasus".  McKennit basically established her     
   own company for her own music and owned it all the way. She's     
   Canadian, btw.   
      
   You mentioned "lots of senseless killing"..  I disagree. The     
   killings depicted in the film seemed quite suitable for the     
   story line.  The story was about how Tod outsmarts the younger     
   recruits of his ilk.  He had to eliminate them all.   
      
   I enjoyed the film. I remained gripped to the story to see how     
   it played out.   
      
      
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