Entertaining with a tad of morality
Sergeant Todd is the “an old model soldier” is disposed of in a trash heap on a foreign world.
This world is occupied by docile, benevolent, friendly people, whom survive off then heap.
The people find Sergeant Todd and assuming he is like them befriend him. Soon they find that he is engineered differently ad shun him. Todd also is confused as the people do not act like normal soldiers. And even they discard him.
The powers that be decide that these people would make perfect fodder for training the newer model soldiers.
The people ashamed of their shunning of Todd decide to invest time in him to teach him their ways.
But will he be able to change or at least understand their society?
Worse still will he become a bad influence?
Soon they find that they need his protection. Looks the planet is going to be used for war games and they are the vermin to be distorted.
Will and can Todd help?
Kurt Russell as Todd, takes this from what could have been a two dimensional future shoot-um-up and makes it a multidimensional story that one can relate to.
It is interesting how we use Sci-fi to mask or enhance moral tales to make them palatable.
今更VFXが見所なのは痛いかも。
最近では「エイリアンVSプレデター」の監督ポール・アンダーソンによる肉体派アクション。恐ろしく古いネタのキャラクターをカート・ラッセルが無表情に演じています。やはりアンダーソン監督のベストは「イベント・ホライゾン」だと確信しました。