Soldier Boyz

Plot synopsis:
The film shows a scene of a girl being kidnapped from a charity plane by Vietnamese rebels (a U.N. supplies [as in food and medicine] plane) in Vietnam. Then we are taken to the United States to a detention center in Los Angeles where the warden of the center and 6 of the toughest prisoners are hired to rescue the girl, whose name is Gabrielle Presscott, daughter of Jameson Prescott, CEO and billionaire. Warden Toliver and prisoners (by last name only, their first names are never revealed) Butts and Monster (black youths), Lopez and Vasquez (Latino youths, with Vasquez being a girl), and Brophy and Lamb (white youths). The group travels to Vietnam with three days to rescue Gabrielle, spending one day to train and the rest of the days to find her.
After winning a battle the group spends the night at a village brothel and has a small celebration, with Brophy sneaking away into the night. The group awakens to find the rebels with Brophy as a hostage and asking the villagers to hand over the rest of the Americans. The group decides to attempt a rescue for Brophy and are successful, however, Lopez and Monster are both killed during the fight. The group runs away into the jungle and is tiredly marching along when Lamb steps on a landmine. While Toliver is trying to disarm the mine, some rebels are slowly getting nearer and nearer to the group. Brophy once again sneaks away but sacrifices himself, bringing another death to the group. Toliver and his men finally arrive at the rebel base camp, with Toliver combing the camp for Gabrielle. After he finds her he returns to the others and hands each of them a set of explosives to be detonated by a timer.
After setting all of the charges, the group is found out and a battle ensues. The group kills scores of rebels but there is no apparent end in sight, forcing the group to retreat. The group is driving away in a stolen armored truck when a missile explodes inches away from the truck. The rebel leader has taken a chopper and followed the band of "soldiers". But Butts had secretly put a charge in the chopper back at the base, and detonates it, killing the rebel leader. The group heads home and the camera shows a chopper flying away into the Vietnamese sunset.

Tags: violence

Review:
I saw this movie late night on HBO or something like that several years ago.
The sheer stupidity of the concept just hit me several days ago.A group of misfits from school get taken to vietnam for a covert operation?
Ho hum.What amazes me is that someone wrote this script, someone looked at this script, and said you know this could be a good movie to make.
And wa la, we have a movie.Michael Dudikoff is as wooden as ever and the rest of the cast is just creepy.
I have seen my fair share of mindless action flicks, and enjoyed a lot of them, but Soldier Boyz is easily the worst I have seen.
He is so bad in this movie; he makes Van Damme look like Oscar material.
The story and script seems to have been written for the sole purpose of having a bunch of thugs and Michael Dudikoff running through Vietnam.
After about 5 minutes of watching this movie anyone with common sense can predict every single thing that happens in the narrative.
What we have here is yet another version of the formula that became popular with the making of "The Dirty Dozen" (though we have fewer soldiers in this movie, probably due to the low budget.) It could have been an entertaining version of the formula, but "Solider Boyz" utterly fails.
To begin with, the setup is ludicrous - would a millionaire whose daughter was kidnapped allow the lead soldier he hires to have a bunch of TEENAGERS who have almost no combat experience?
The jungle locations look skimpy, and some scenes seem to be hastily shot, like when the millionaire's daughter is captured.
As you can see, "Soldier Boyz" has problems going far beyond bad spelling..
A group of delinquents are recruited by Michael Dudikoff for a dangerous mission in Vietnam, forming a dirty half dozen (as the film was advertised).
Despite the unbelievable go-point, the movie's pretty good, and does a good job creating the feeling of a hostile and deadly war area with dire consequences for the people who go there.
One interesting element of this movie was watching Dudikoff acting with a cast of younger actors, and knowing his real-life passion for spending time with children, it makes one feel that he really believes in these kids despite the screw-ups they had made in their lives.
Fans of movies like THE DIRTY DOZEN and UNCOMMON VALOR should give this one a look..
Vietnam films were pretty played out by the time this films was made, so I'm not quite sure why this was a story that needed to be told, especially since essentially same story was told much better in the 1983 John Milius produced "Uncommon Valor" (which incidentally Dudikoff had a brief non-speaking role).
Dudikoff assembles his own Dirty Dozen out of a bunch of criminals and reprobates to carry out their predictable and dull mission.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, an actor too good for this tripe, does as much as he can with his ridiculous villain role as the bandit leader.
Overall, this is a pretty low rent Vietnam themed action film that's about 10 years too late..
Michael Dudikoff cares for delinquents these are violent delinquents, who he would like to give a second chance to and if they choose to accept; freedom is there if they come back alive.
You know conning out the money of a rich tycoon who tries to hire him to rescue his daughter who has been kidnapped while doing aid work in Vietnam.
So Dudikoff (who's in prison, but we never know why --- maybe it had something to do with the death of his wife and child in a drive-by shooting?) goes about picking a ragtag group of delinquent prisoners to go gangster and popping caps (you'll know what I mean when you see certain gunfire sequences) in the jungles of Vietnam.
The whole thing is ridiculously obtuse and macho, but this routine b-grade in-and-out rescue mission entertains in sort of a teen version of "The Dirty Dozen".
It was so godforsakingly awful that ever the memory of it brings a foul taste to my mouth.....I normally like Robert Patrick but he must have owed his dealer some megabucks to need money that badly to be part of that travesty.....But, now, I have a new champion, a new movie that was so disgustingly awful that I am amazed and horrified that somebody actually ponied up the cash to:a) Buy such an atrocious script b) Hire the worst 'actors', and I use the term in its loosest possible incantation, to star in said film c) Find any professional movie makers willing to risk their professional careers to be even associated with this d) Thought it was a good idea to make this at allWhere do you start?The good points.....after thinking long and hard I decided that I wanted those 45 seconds back that a tried to find something positive to say.
This waste of film deserves to have a star in its rating taken away for every single person associated with the making and distribution of it.The bad parts....well the plot was amazingly stupid....I mean...you're ripping off one of the greatest classic war movies ever made and they botched it so badly they made Attack of the Killer Tomatoes look like a work of Shakespeare.
The actors....you know a movie is going to suck when the best actor in it is Michael Dudikoff.....he makes Vin Diesel look like he has all the talent, range and emotion of Sir Laurence Olivier.
Oh my god....maybe some of the Generation Y posters might think that the action scenes were OK.....obviously playing Battlefield 2 for 6 weeks straight does affect the brain....but I've seen more realistic and action packed scenes in silent Charlie Chaplin films.
You had boneheads...I mean supposed 'gangbangers', who look about as frightening as the local icecream man, running around with pistols 'gangsta style' one shotting everything in sight.....if that wasn't bad enough, some pelican is shooting an AK one handed AND thrusting the rifle forwards like he's stabbing someone with it with everyshot and he's one shotting hordes of Vietnamese extra's!
I've done my time in hell..watching this steaming dog turd of a movie....You want to end the war on terror...drop copies of this screaming abortion on the Inturdgents in Iraq and the Talibunnies in the 'Ghan....they'll run screaming AND you'll have the UN on your arse about using WMD's....How can crap like this get funding??
This makes Starship Troopers 2 look like The Longest Day. This is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.
I watched in on Encore a while back, and have remembered it to this day because of how utterly terrible it is.Anyone who is comparing this movie to The Dirty Dozen is completely misleading, or has never seen the dirty dozen.
The The Dirty Dozen was a well directed movie with good characters and development and an actual plot.
Michael Dudikoff (In a not so appealing haircut)stars as a prison warden named Tolliver who lets out six prisoners to do a dirty dozen style rescue, mainly a V.I.P's daughter who has been abducted by communist Vietnamese soldiers (Ah, isn't the cold war over, guess not.) along the way Dudikoff a former soldier trains the prisoners and leads the attack on Vinh Moc (Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa) in this lively actioner which although stupid at least offers the action with a good amount of flair.
This movie was quite OK, not bad or good.
A former major (Michael Dudikoff) are asked to being sent down there to find her, he does it if he are allowed to bring six prisoners and that they will be free after the operation (if they survive).
I'm not against women in movies or in tougher character roles, but I don't think you need a women in every war-movie just because you wants to show that you are not against women in war.But the movie works because it has action.
If a movie can't handle the basic story and get some descent actors then no one cares about the message.But as an action-flick its OK..
Okay here's a first go at it: WHAT THE F#CK!?Let me give you a summary of the concept of this movie: Punks, Vietnam...
E. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, in this movie pulls a face when shooting as if someone said: "Here's a piece of concrete, eat it and then poop it out within now and 10 minutes or I will kill you with a fork." Can you imagine that look?
Okay, I bet I've demotivated you to watch this movie, thats good!
This movie is one hell of an insult to any Vietnam-veteran as well as any soldier in the world.
Cheers for comparing the average soldier's-skill to that of an untrained criminal, they will appreciate it.The only thing I liked about this movie?
As much as I love a good mindless action flick, and as much as I love Michael Dudikoff in those flicks, this one just pushes too far.
The acting is horrible, the characters cliched stereotypes, the plot nonsensical, and the action scenes are boring.
Dudikoff must really need money bad to do tripe like this.
It's movies like this and "The Shooter" that make "American Ninja" look like "The Godfather."  Avoid at all costs..
Why do they even make movies like this???
Like some of the other reviews, this movie ranked amongst my top 10 worst (maybe even the worst) I have ever seen.
I saw the movie in German with no subtitles and was stunned to find that it all went exactly as I thought after seeing the first 15 minutes.Bad acting, worse plot, awful loop holes and over used movie formulas - why does the 'crazy' guy always get the shotgun or the feuding rivals become blood-brothers before the end.Holding an assault rifle sideways with one hand is never going to work and it made the action in American Ninja look respectable.
It doesn't even offer the deliberate comedy aspect of Commando and feels like a cheap version of the 'Toy Soldiers', bad kids do something good plot.Watch if you want to see a movie to add to your all time worst list..
What's even more amazing than the absurd plot, the cardboard characters, the incredibly inept acting, the racial stereotypes, the lousy camera work, the nonsensical editing, the cheap production values, is the fact that this many IMDBers took the time to write a 10 line review of this movie!
Spelling BOYZ with a "Z" is an obvious attempt to try to blend in with the cool gangster themed movies of that area.
The people who think this is a good movie is why the Internet sucks.
Ignoring the plot holes, the nonsensical story and ridiculous fight scenes the acting alone should have had this movie canned before it was ever released.The dirty dozen was an actually good movie.
The dirty dozen actually were soldier who served in war time, not gangbangers who don't even know how to shoot a gun.
But on top of the semi-plausible, but hooky plot in the Dirty Dozen, they decided to use real actors.The fact that good films never get made and someone spends money on movies like this is the worst atrocity committed by this film.If you just want to see some teen thugs shoot guns, badly, and see out of place and ridiculous explosions then this movie may be for you..
This movie is a stupid and cheesy 90's copy of classic "Dirty Dozen".
Unfortunately Michael Dudikoff ("American ninja") is no Lee Marvin ("Delta force") and "Soldier boyz" is one bad movie.
Everything sucks here – story , acting , dialogues , action scenes The American youth here is nothing , but a bunch of stereotypes.
I mean who would care for such one dimensional characters like white skinhead (with a ridiculously fake swastika tattoo) , tough Latino girl , black "Monster" (that's his nickname !) rapist or Latino macho guy ?
He tries hard to be an experienced bad ass soldier , but he just isn't convincing in the role.
The best performance here comes from Cary Hirouki Tagawa ("Showdown in little Tokyo") experienced actor who specializes in playing villains.The funniest thing here is that it could actually be a decent and fun B-class movie if it was done right.
What kind of a leader would take into his team a psychopathic woman, a black serial killer/rapist,a skinhead, a Mexican gang member, a black gang member and some guy with who's martial arts he was just impressed with.
:S C) if the major wants 6 people in his team, I think he could be able to find 6 ex-soldiers in a prison, no?
A 40 year old veteran would for sure be a better choice than a guy who doesn't even know how to use a gun.
E) well actually you can see the results in the entire movie, they don't have the best shooting techniques in the world :D the Mexican runs around the forest with 2 pistols, shooting berserk; the black guy shoots half the time an M4 from 1 hand and kills a lot of Vietnamese...
When Gabrielle Prescott (Hansen), daughter of rich white man Jameson Prescott (Brandt) is kidnapped by the National Liberation Front leader Vinh Moc (Tagawa) and held for ransom, Jameson enlists Major Howard Tolliver (Dudikoff) to rescue her.
Thinking he can't do it alone, he enlists a ragtag team of prisoners, and together, they are the titular "Soldier Boyz" (even though one of them is female).
While this movie is a low-budget actioner with a "Z" in "Boyz" instead of an "S" (S's are just not cool.
The movie is fast paced, with some good action sequences.
During the extensive training, all the Soldier Boyz try to fight Tolliver and naturally they all lose.
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Passable B-movie actioner.
SOLDIER BOYZ is the kind of derivative B-movie action I enjoy watching once in a while, although I think constant exposure to these films would drive me insane.
This one is a low budget, updated version of THE DIRTY DOZEN, with a youthful cast and a plot that heavily relies on RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II for its thrills and spills.
They just kind of head off and do their stuff in a series of explosive set-pieces that make fine use of bloody squib hits to up the ante of violence.Leading this shames is '80s action man Michael Dudikoff.
Character evolution is completely clichéd, with the bad guys turning good, and you can predict pretty much everything that happens.
Elsewhere the action is well delivered in a kind of '80s bombastic fashion, but there's too much silliness in the way the guys fight.
Not only do we have people shooting from the hip and using AK-47s one-handed, but one guy has watched too many John Woo films and runs around with his pistols tilted on their sides at all times.
First, I have to say, if you sit down to watch a movie and you will bash it for being preposterous or not true to reality, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
I would suggest documentaries for you.This is a movie in which Michael Dudikoff plays a character named Toliver, who is a counselor at a prison or possibly a youth detention center.
When the daughter of an influential man is kidnapped while doing charity work in Vietnam, Toliver is asked to get her back.
Toliver was a bad *ss special operations soldier who gave up the life after his wife and daughter were killed in a drive by shooting meant to kill gang members.
He picks several and off they go to Vietnam to get the girl with the rich daddy back from the evil American hating Vietnamese kidnappers.Yes, the plot is totally preposterous and not at all plausible, but the movie is actually well done considering this was a made for TV movie.
Toliver is the typical iron fisted ruler who wants his "kids" to do well but won't let emotion show.Overall, not a bad way to spend a few hours time.
It's actually one of his best movies..
I'm not sure if the producers of this movie are aware of words like credibility never mind vermislitude As has been said if you've defeated countries like France , The United States and China in long lasting bloody conflicts how difficult is it to crack down on a bunch of gangsters who want to spoil a multi billion dollar trade agreement between America and Vietnam ?
If you set up a premise of " VIP's daughter getting kidnapped by bad guy rebels in third world country " wouldn't Columbia be a more credible location ?
Just the sort of people you'd want to hire to save some VIP's daughter being held in a jungle Yes that's the plot - a bunch of really nasty violent prisoners are given an amnesty if they can rescue the hostage .
Hey sounds like that movie from the late 60s with Lee Marvin, but where as THE DIRTY DOZEN had an internal logic to it this movie doesn't .
SOLDIER BOYZ continues to tell its story in this illogical , ridiculous , nonsensical manner .
Rugged ex-Marine Major Howard Toliver (played to the rough'n'tumble hilt by Michael Dudikoff) picks six hardened convicts from the prison that he runs to assist him in a desperate rescue mission in which they must go to Vietnam to save a kidnapped heiress.
Director Louis Morneau, working from a gloriously ludicrous script by Darryl Quarles, keeps the preposterous premise zipping along at a brisk pace, stages the exciting action set pieces with rip-roaring gusto, blows lots of stuff up, and clumsily shoehorns in a heavy-handed would-be poignant redemption theme for sappy good measure.