A film so ridiculous it's almost good. Released a year after "For Your Eyes Only", this is similar in only one respect a skiing chase scene. Even this is pretty poorly done. The cast are uniformly dismal and the music isn't much better. The only saving grace is that it doesn't overstay it's welcome and they didn't make a sequel.
The Soldier
1982
Action / Adventure / Thriller
The Soldier
1982
Action / Adventure / Thriller
Plot summary
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
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At the time this movie had some teeth and a small reason to exist, however those things have both since been swallowed up by time.
Check it out only if you are going through an 80's B action phase :)
The Soldier
James Glickenhaus made his name with the cult action movie The Exterminator.
With a bigger budget he followed it up with The Soldier.
Ken Wahl is The Soldier. A codename for a CIA anti terrorist agent to get results by any means.
Rogue KGB agents led by Ivan have stolen plutonium, made a nuclear device and threatening to bomb the oil fields in Saudi Arabia.
They want Israel to remove their settlements from the West Bank.
Faced with the half the world's oil reserves being contaminated for almost 300 years. The Soldier is sent in to investigate.
Ivan anticipates this and has plans to have him killed. When his CIA boss is killed The Soldier teams up with Mossad agents.
Glickenhaus has gone for a low budget B type James Bond movie. There is an elaborate ski slope chase scene and some international locations.
It also has an incoherent story that does not make much sense. It is easy to think that Glickenhaus has deliberately tried to be surreal and clever but I have my doubts.
There is an opening scene where a woman crosses the road with a pram in front of a diplomatic limousine. It fails to stop and mows the woman over.
The woman was actually a terrorist that planned to gun down the limo. The pram contained guns which other baddies went for.
The Soldier and his team gun them down. It looks like a training exercise.
It is part of the narrative but it is shot so ineptly and badly staged.
It is the kind of thing that lets the movie down. It has too many filler scenes, a choppy story and the electronic score does not suit it at all.