Not to be confused with the Indian film of the same name, from the same year. Soldier (1998) is one of Kurt Russell’s best action hero movies. It’s beautifully composed and has a very original concept. It also has a great soundtrack by Loreena McKennitt (Night Ride Across the Caucasus).
This movie follows the story of a cold-hearted team of soldiers whose leader is played by Kurt Russell – the strongest and fastest of them all. After many successful campaigns, he eventually gets made obsolete as a new breed of soldiers are introduced, who are stronger and faster than the old ones. The leader of the new soldiers is played by Jason Scott Lee (from Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, which is not an accurate depiction of Bruce Lee’s life story but is a decent movie nevertheless).
Now obsolete, we see the leader of the old soldiers left for dead on a garbage dump planet where no people are thought to live. But he soon gets taken in by a community of locals, and we see him gain a heart and eventually help these people to defeat all the new soldiers when they eventually come to wipe out the people on this planet.