Soldiers of Fortune

Plot synopsis:
Robert Clay, a noble America hero of humble means trying to do his best to help the war effort in the fictional capital Olancho in a small South American republic, but he meets a rich lady and they fall in love during the revolution. Robert Clay is the engineer and general manager of the Valencia Mining Company in Olancho. There are two sisters that come into Robert Clay's life. Both are the daughters of Mr. Langham, the president of the Mining company. The older sister, Alice, is a New York City society girl. Her sister Hope is enthusiastic, generous and sweet. Robert Clay meets Alice just before he sails for South America. He shares his admiration for her. Later, when he learns the family are going to Olancho also, he is very happy. But after getting to know Alice better he is sad. During her visit to Olancho a revolution starts, in this time she shows courage and to be a lady of charter. This attracts Clay to her, he ask her to marry him.

Tags: revenge, humor, murder, violence, flashback

Review:
Sean Bean is a good actor and there was some others in the movie that made my wife and I decide to give it a shot.
If the overall quality of the opening sequence wasn't enough to set the tone, the subsequent scene of Christian Slater playing cards should do the trick.My only question is: surely actors have to know during the filming that this is a really, really poor movie, right?
It actually is a technically pretty well made movie, with of course also one truly great cast in it.Believe it or not but this movie actually stars Sean Bean, James Cromwell, Ving Rhames, Christian Slater and Dominic Monaghan all in one special soldiers of fortune team.
I truly think that this movie and its story had far more potential in it, so that's truly a big waste.It's not a particularly spectacular or involving genre movie to watch but it at least isn't boring or offensively bad, in any way or form.
All he needs now is a more decent script and a bigger budget to work with.Not a great genre movie but a good guilty pleasure.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/.
And, I'm shocked that some of the other cast, who are usually high quality actors, also signed on to this movie.The costumes and weapons are cheap and artificial looking.
The acting is shallow, the score is bad, the script and dialog totally disengaging.I painfully watched 2/3 of the movie and gave up.
I joined IMDb specifically to write a review of this appalling movie.I will hesitate to watch another Christian Slater movie in the future.I feel sick, disappointed and ripped off.
But if you came in for a fun ride with a bunch of washed up actors doing their best to bring cardboard characters to live, a ridiculous plot, hammy jokes and some big bang for your buck, than you 're surely going to enjoy this one.
this movie is so horrible that not only might have ruined several good actors' hard-earned good images but also might fatally ruined their market values and henceforth cast them into the B-level bad movies' official candidates.
first of all, chose Christian slater to be the inevitable leader who would lead a bunch of thrill-seeking rich people to overturn a tyrant of a small island was a horrible casting job.
I have to start by saying that even though the cast is very good and full of well known actors this is still a B movie.
With a somewhat good cast, actors with lot of experience - it is very difficult to watch this film as something other than surprisingly horrible.It is filled with mistakes, uniforms, weapons, really bad effects and also the music seems more bought from a cheap sound library than made specifically for this movie...SPOILER: Well no need to spoil anything, cause everything is way to obvious and nothing new here...I feel kind a cheated for the actors input and also for not having more humor since all characters really plays it up...The 3 stars given is because of the actors is in the movie, and sometimes some beautiful scenery and that I watched it (although I checked my mobile several times and went for more pops) I LOVE movies, but this one and stupid unnecessary violent horror movies is really waste of "going to the movies" and can only range as an amazingly strange B movie.Heroes with a big laugh..
With Christian Slater as the lead, one can expect the movie to be b quality, but this certainly is not his worst performance.
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..
I am sorry to say I can't believe Christian Slater or Sean Bean can be that broke, that they agrees to such a film, it makes even B-movies look good.
For me, a 6 is not bad.This may not be great, but it's not bad.It didn't start well but somewhere, around a fourth of the movie, when the main actors have come together, the director sort of got a feel of how to do his job.Unless another director came in to save the furniture or some producer said "enough guys".So, at some point, the chemistry kicked in with the satire.Not going to spoil it for you, but the job descriptions of the "clients" cast a welcomed entertaining and humorist light on the whole exercise.This surely isn't the Guns of Navarone, but it was nice and innocent fun as the backdrop of the story gave it a definite iconoclastic taste..
it's good for a LAUGH.Think of most 80's action movies and make them even more silly.An Oscar winner?
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.
Already the first action sequences were the, supposedly skilled captain McCenzie is introduced, are downright laughable with the captain running around like a monkey shooting people left right and center.The film, unfortunately, continues very much in this style.
One of the reasons I decided to watch this movie was due to actors like Sean Bean and sure enough, they perform as well as can be expected with the rather louse material that they are given to work with.Not a movie that I would recommend to anyone..
really poor movie,dialogue,acting,directing, the lot.overall i can't believe that the cast are seasoned 'A' list professional actors and why they would get involved in such a howler.
obviously made by real amateurs who managed to acquire an 8million budget ,but for sure one movie the entire 'well known' cast will want to erase from their C.V and not want to hear of ever again!there has not been many times when i've wanted to stop the movie half way through with such a cast like that in it but i thought i better see it through til the end and ultimately it actually got 'worse'.will no doubt be up for a 'raspberry but ridicule for sure.times must be tough in the recession for them!!.
This on the other hand masquerades itself as a film you might like to see with Christian Slater and Sean Bean heavily involved.
I like Sean Bean, Ving Rhames, and believe it or not Christian Slater as well.The opening sequence is so laughable, I thought it was on purpose.
The movie looks pretty cheap; probably most of the budget was blown rounding up that memorable cast of actors.
It was a thoroughly poor and disappointing movie, bad action sequences, awful acting and terrible special effects.
The plot: two ex-special forces veterans take a group of rich playboys looking for adventure into the middle of an island's civil war.At first, Soldiers of Fortune is a fun B movie that seems inspired by Verohoeven's campy, violent classics of the 80s.
If you're a fan of low budget action movies, it's likely that you've seen much worse.
Most of the actors are wasted, but it's always fun to see some good actors having fun, even if it's in a bad movie.If you're looking for something that makes logical sense, has a good plot, and big budget special effects, I think you'll just hate this movie.
This movie is basically Call Of Duty on film not bad not good just food for thought..
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..
Christian Slater, Ving Rhames, Sean Bean, Colm Meaney, Domonic Monaghan and James Cromwell should all be ashamed of themselves for taking money to participate in this movie.
James Cromwell, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames and Christian Slater in a movie.
wonder if the movie would have been better with b actors ?Overall i think the story and setup is awful - the writing and acting a joke and the effects and scenery bad as well.I wonder why the cast in this movie have chosen to participate, since the script couldn't have been the fantastic - so the money have been..
Do not waste your time unless you are male and between the ages of 10-14 y.o. Poor actors as well, Slaters been in a few clunky movies before but can usually carry off an action role easily.
Feel bad for the actors who had to partake in this garbage of a film.Anyone giving the creators of this piece of s**t, a job in the film industry again, are just plain stupid and would do the world a service by burning their money instead of fooling people to think it something to watch.I got fooled when I saw the actors names and thought this is an interesting cast and the story could have been fun.But the director made the film not watchable, the scenes where bad, the lines where bad, the cut's where even worse.The only good thing in this film are some of the nature shoots, looks like a beautiful scenery, that's it.I registered here on IMDb just to warn people about this poor excuse of a movie.There are some individuals claiming that the makers have done it as an homage to B-movies, I feel it's an insult even to C-movies.
It took a full hour of my life witch I won't get back until I understood it wasn't going to get better.From now on I will read peoples comments here before watching any movies!!Looks like a bunch of Russian with too much money to spend made this while being totally wasted, with a bunch of hang around wanting to become actors.
It boggles the mind.Christian Slater - Robin Hood, Broken Arrow, The West Wing Sean Bean - LOTR, James Bond, Troy, National Treasure James Cromwell - Babe, Star Trek-First Contact, The Green Mile Dominic Monaghan - LOTR, Lost Colm Meaney - Star Trek Generations and DS9, Con Air, The Commitments Ving Rhames - Mission ImpossibleHow do you take such a talented cast and make such a bad movie?I suppose you do a bad job of directing, fill the movie with tired cliché, make battle scenes that appear like paint pellet championships, and skimp on things like special effects and stuntmen.
The movie honestly has the look and feel of a 70s cop series...The first few minutes is filled with a action/battle scene that I 'honestly' thought they would reveal to be a rich man's paint pellet fantasy game...
it was supposed to be an actual American soldier (Christian Slater) shooting his way through bad guys to rescue one of his men...
I understand that an actor should make money after a reasonable performance in a blockbuster series like Game of Thrones.But after watching Cleanskin and now Soldiers of fortune, I cannot understand why Sean Bean should accept to make such terrible movies.
lots of big time actors in weak B-movie.
American soldiers Captain Craig McCenzie (Christian Slater) and Mike Reed (Freddy Rodriguez) crossed CIA agent Carter Mason (Colm Meaney) and get run out of the military for it.
The rich customers are metals magnate Roman St John (Sean Bean), arms dealer Grimaud Tourneur (Ving Rhames), video game designer Tommy Sin (Dominic Monaghan), and telcom CEO Sam Haussmann (James Cromwell).There are great award-winning actors involved in this.
I don't know how much money they paid to lure these great actors to do a bad movie.
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 basic plot idea is good and could have been done with some style & class, considering the actors involved; but it came off as a straight-to-video actioner, not even credible enough to be a TV movie.
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.
MW is a fine game with a finely crafted plot and script - but this film has neither.The plot - if we can call it that - is that some special forces guys are forced to take on some battlefield tourists who've bought their way into a war experience like they are playing airsoft for the weekend.
I almost didn't watch this movie, because even though I do like Christian Slater a lot his recent movies have for the most of them not been that great.ASSASSIN'S RUN (2012), PLAYBACK (2012), THE POWER OF FEW (2013) and STRANDED (2013) were flat out horrible, so imagine my surprise when I turned this on with a rating of 4.3/10 on here and I found myself actually enjoying it!I mean sure it's flawed in logic and the characters are a little one- dimensional BUT it's good b-movie popcorn entertainment and sometimes that's all you need.A pretty impressive list of cast as well, Christian Slater is joined by Ving Rhames, James Cromwell, Colm Meany, Sean Bean, Dominic Monaghan and Freddy Rodriguez...
And although perhaps none of them make their finest performances of their lifetimes they do seem like they enjoyed making the movie, even Christian Slater (!) and it got some good kills and explosions etc so I can't complain about the visuals either.So yeah overall, nothing that will blow you away but dumb good fun regardless..
The main thing in this movie is manly guns and booms and shooting some badly scripted, badly acted baddies.Normally, this would be worth of 6, but I add: +1 Star for easy and relaxing fun to watch.
I'm a huge fan of military-themed movies and figured with Christian Slater and Sean Bean (2 halfway-decent actors) this would be worth watching.Boy was I wrong.
But, not as funny as the scene where he runs into an open field and picks off several "Taliban" (they looked like characters from an Arab spoof comedy) with a Call of Duty assault rifle.Please save yourself the dollar and time of this worthless junk.Rob. Unemployed Vets Get the Action Movie Treatment.
They will only see the guns and the explosions and actors like Christian Slater, Ving Rhames, Sean Bean, Dominic Monaghan, and James Cromwell behaving like cheesy badasses.
Not a bad B-movie action film.
Despite the impressive cast overall, this movie is clearly carried by Slater on his back much like a wounded enemy combatant in a war zone.Important things you need to know about Soldiers Of Fortune: 1.
liked this movie because it was action and no complicated plot.
I am a huge fan of Slater and i like the fact he isn't a pretty boy trying to play the hero as a James bond actor would.
This as an edge of old eighties action movies and I believe that if rich folk in the future, want to play war, it is possible that the outline plot of this film may become a reality.
Slater does his best with what he as been given and wouldn't be bad in one of the expendables movies , this film as an edge of what expendables delivers on a bigger budget..
The worst performance belongs to Christian Slater (Craig McCenzie), who once again seems to think he is tough guy, but unless it is the cynical type (like in "Broken Arrow" or "Hard Rain") he is not.
The casted people is actually not bad actors but the end product is horrible.You see brand new uniforms a lot of airsoft rifles and people who don't know anytning about being tactical at all,this movie obviously had no attempt to make it feel real at all its more like a bmovie drug dealer action "lets pretend we know what we are doing since we didn't use any advisors on holding a rifle or that clothes in a warzone isn't brand new".The only thing missing is the eye of the tiger theme song really.The story line is poor and leads nowhere.
Look not a great movie but damn was it fun to watch.
Colm Meaney of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" makes a thoroughly loathsome villain named Carter Mason, while Ving Rhames, Sean Bean, Dominic Monaghan, and James Cromwell are cast as wealthy businessmen who want to get a taste of combat.