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

karenjones23 liked this movie because it was action and no complicated plot. Some films try to be to clever, and this one works because you know the cast and like them from other films and TV , they have acted in. 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. I chose this movie because of being mainly a fan of his, and that least in this movie he doesn't get killed off half way through. If you want to watch something easy to comprehend and don't mind a few mistakes here and there, like the fact it isn't full of the f word every sentence you'll enjoy it. 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. Money does buy everything and that's the point of this movie. 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.

j b This movie is full of great actors. 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. I expected that this sequence was some sort of staged military exercise the rich guys were participating in. DId Christian Slater really do dive rolls while taking out bad guys?? There wasn't one iota of realism, the weapon was wrong, the uniform was wrong, and why was CS taking on a Taliban village solo?Later, the entire group of mercenaries have a beach party...on the same tiny island that the bad guys are on. Complete with bonfire and shooting pistols in the air. Really?It got worse from there. I didn't think it was possible to combine the talents of A list actors and make a movie worse than a B movie. I wanted to like this movie. Really I did. After the first 20 minutes I considered turning it off, but then decided to watch it to see how bad it was. Turns out it wasn't "so bad it was good". It went past that and was "so bad it was actually bad"The premise wasn't too horrible and this story could have been OK. I don't expect we will see this director again.

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.