Soldiers of Fortune

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Well, first of all the scenario is so damn poor and lacks of credibility that makes me think it was written by a 7-8 years old kid. Island of Snakes is a property of Ukraina and has only 0.17 km2. Any person with access to Wikipedia can read that. It has 662 meters long. Hard to hide a rebellion there :). The General who took over, name is Lupe, really??? Lupe, a Latino name ? why not Ivan, Serghei Slav name or Nicolae, Vasile Romanian name. I won't pick on the acting of Christian Slater. The shootings are OK, so the special effects, but all that is killed by story. I gave it 2 stars for the laughs. I've made an account on IMDb specially for this.

I have never written a review but this movie was so bad that I had to. One would think that for 8M you would get something better that less than one. I wonder if these actors realize that the might have signed their death sentence as actors with this movie. Don't wait your time if you must see this movie wait for it on DVD and watch it in fast-forward. As for the props, costumes, and other effects in the movie you could find the costumes and effects as good if not better during halloween in your local neighborhood. There are only a handful of movies that I would rate this bad...

Having waited for a long time to get my hands on this movie, I was looking forward to watching it, albeit early indications on IMDb suggested most people were so impressed. Soldiers of Fortune is not the best movie you'll ever see. It's probably not the best movie you'll see this month. The special effects, the plot and the writing leave much to be desired too. With all that said, there is a certain something about this film which made me really enjoy it. I laughed quite hard most of the way through it - some of the jokes and scenes were hilarious and some of it was just ridiculously comical. In summary, this is a B-Movie but certainly one of the better ones. The running time is around 90 minutes and if you can accept the film's shortcomings I think it's 90 minutes well spent.

As for most of the reviews.. really? You must have tried to actually take this movie seriously. It's a half baked spoof of "action movies" in general. Yes the writing is horrible.. the effects lacking and laughable. But that is the point. it's good for a LAUGH. Think of most 80's action movies and make them even more silly. An Oscar winner? Not an ice cube's chance in hell. But I've seen infinitely worse movies to say the least that were trying to be serious. It's much the same as "Piranah 3DD" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714203/) was never designed to be serious... so loosen up and have a laugh. Oh and for anyone wanting a really horrible movie check out "revenge of the ninja"... then come on back to this one.

There are a lot of grate actors in this movie, and even the ones who are not good are entertaining. However the movie is horrible! It would not surprise me if this was intended as Uwe Boll's sequel to his Far Cry movie. There are no words to describe how bad the script is to this movie, it flips between "war is hell" to "video games cause evil" and then comments about how bad bankers are. It feels like someone took the top 5 list of topics on Fox News and then asked some one to make a movie out of those in a world where guns work much like in the A-Team TV series.

To put it mildly, this smells of eastern European money trying to grab a market share in the west. The story of this movie is completely horrible, horrendous, even. One would think, that with this many acclaimed actors, it would not be possible to create such gut-wrenching crap. It is, however. As I am writing this, the score on IMDb is 5.6, which is what persuaded me to go watch this film. Had I only known the truth, I would have saved 10 £. Instead, I feel completely abused by the movies director. So take my two cents and listen, please: DO NOT WATCH THIS PIECE OF ****!

This movie, to me, is like when I eat a tootsie roll. When eating a tootsie roll, it begins that you have to savor it slowly due to it's hardness. However, after the initial salivation of the candy is over and it is good and wet, it gets better and better. You can't put it down until you get to the chocolate soft center. And, that is oh so good and makes you feel so good. Just a great deal of pleasure. This movie is the same way. It begins with you feeling a little hard with the opening scene because you think it is another war movie. You wonder if it's going to entertain you and then it just gets better and better. Oh, and it isn't another war movie. The writer uses an age old formula, good overcoming evil, and it still works. However, the creative concept of the movie plot is unique. Has a lot of really great actors who many of us have come to love from other characters they have portrayed. You will enjoy this movie.

I seriously don't understand why some people actually think while watching this movie. Do they expect to see awesome acting, with awesome effects and a mind breaking story? It's a solid action flick with many actors from other B-movies or television series. The effects are OK, the action is solid, actors do their job. I see it as a homage on other action movies some scenes kinda reminded me of "The Expendables". I have no clue with what kind of expectations some people watched this... If you can enjoy movies like "The Tournament", you wont regret watching this movie. Just don't expect to see a 50 Mil. dollar budget movie. If you don't enjoy B-movies don't watch them...