Soldier 4K 1998

Those who were looking for an action movie in this film undoubtedly found one. But the film—and please forgive my personal opinion—is not about that at all.
Perhaps, in fact, this film isn’t for everyone.

After returning from the military and seeing (thankfully, not for long) what WAR is really like, I probably have a slightly different perspective on life. My first year back in civilian life was very difficult for me. What does this movie have to do with that, you might ask?

Here’s the thing. In the story, Kurt Russell’s character faces the opposite situation. Accustomed only to WAR, having never known peace, he suddenly finds himself in a place where orders aren’t needed, where you don’t have to wait every second for the command “to attack,” where there’s no need to kill people so they won’t kill you.

But the film’s central message is this: even after understanding and accepting peaceful life, realizing that peace is HAPPINESS, the soldier understands that he is still DIFFERENT, not like the rest, and that he cannot become just another ordinary person. He will still dream at night of plasma bombs exploding and plasma rifles hissing, of enemies’ faces twisted with hatred, and of the corpses of innocent people caught in the middle of the war. He can never be anyone else. He is doomed to loneliness.

Kurt Russell’s best work.