Pluskylang Great Film overall

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

juneebuggy This is not a great movie by any means, you can tell that within the first 2 minutes of viewing, yet as many times as I thought, I really need to shut this off, there was just something about it. Ultimately I managed to stick with it until the end.I liked the cast which helped. Everyone involved was familiar to me, and (for whatever reason?) giving their best to a B-grade mess. Faces among the team include; James Cromwell, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames -with a decent African accent, Dominic Monaghan and Freddy Rodriguez.'Soldiers' is also a bit of a throwback film to the action movies of the 1980's which was fun; lots of big bright explosions, excess of bullets which never hit the good guys and always find their mark first time on the bad guys who usually fall off something, along with a body count (to the faceless bad guy army) of epic proportions.The story follows Captain Craig McKenzie, (Christian Slater) a former U.S special forces soldier (and user of the cool Captain Kirk roll) who is hired to protect a group of wealthy people wanting to experience the thrills of actual military affairs and warfare. The misfit team of millionaires get more than they bargained for when the "fake" mission becomes real, trapping them in enemy territory.Ultimately this is a one of those perfect hangover films, as in I can't get off the couch and don't want to think too hard. Oh and the closing credits are super awesome with hard rock music and in your face exploding pictures of the cast. 8/7/15

Wizard-8 I wonder if Christian Slater - who once was a big star in major Hollywood movies - gets more depressed with every direct to DVD movie he's been doing for the past few years. Don't get me wrong - I do enjoy a lot of direct to DVD movies. And this one has some merit, such as some interesting locations as well as some colorful and likable performances by the supporting cast (Ving Rhames, James Cromwell, and Sean Bean). Slater, on the other hand, seems less than enthusiastic, almost as if he's gritting his teeth all through the movie. It's probably due to a couple of factors that ultimately sink things. The movie looks pretty cheap; probably most of the budget was blown rounding up that memorable cast of actors. A bigger problem is that the movie isn't very exciting. The action sequences come across as flat and without punch for the most part. And there's somewhat less action than you might think. I've seen a lot worse, but I'm still surprised that a major Hollywood studio (Metro Goldwyn Mayer) picked this up for distribution.

embacher-thomas Alright so this is a bad movie by many standards.But what did you expect? It has a budget of 8 Million $, most of which was spent on explosions and well known actors. And you know what? Budget well spent.I guess everyone who watches that movie on his or her free will, knows what waits inside. Horrible dialogue, paper-thin plot, sometimes cheap looking stunts, and so on.But the fun in these kind of movies lies not in its script, or in emotional attachment. No, films like this serve only one purpose: Leave your brain at home and prepare to be a little boy again. I for my part love art-house movies like The Help, My week with Marylin, and so on. But when i was a kid, my favorite movies were Best of the Best, Bloodsport, American Ninja, stuff like that. So maybe your girlfriend will hate you, when you drag her with you to see "Soldiers of Fortune". But for a night out with your mates, it fits perfectly. And I guess I am not alone with my opinion, or else "Machete" would not be so successful.I for my part am glad whenever I see Dominic Monaghan, Christian Slater or Vingh Rhames pop up in a movie. Why? Cause I like them and I like it when they get a job. And I seriously believe that they had a heck of a time shooting this movie. Sometimes an actor has to blow off some steam, see Liam Neeson and his newfound action persona.So is it a bad movie? Of course it is! But i have DVDs at home that are much worse. The remake of Total Recall is 20 times more expensive and does the same job like Soldiers of Fortune: Being a loud, testosterone-filled, action-packed movie that has no other purpose than to blow your ears off. Sometimes that is enough for me to be entertained.

krisdl How is it possible for a film to be this awful, I have really enjoyed performances from Sean Bean, Christian Slater & Dominic Monaghan in the past, why they would sign on to this pile of steaming donkey dung is beyond me.The film is just terrible from the first minute, it was so awful I kept watching hoping that it would get better and redeem it'self but that never happened, it just got worse.It might have helped if there were some laughs but there really weren't any I am at a loss to explain how this film got made and I hope that people come here and read reviews so they don't have to endure the pain others have by watching it.