What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

UNIVERSAL SOLDIERS is another rip-off from The Asylum; I need not bother stating which film they're ripping off here, suffice it to say that this came out about 15 years too later. The story seems to have been written in an extremely sketchy way, and there's no script of a fashion - just characters going on and on, swearing and shouting at each other. A bunch of Z-grade actors run around the countryside and are occasionally killed by the titular menace, but this is embarrassingly amateurish rubbish, with no entertainment value whatsoever.

I came across this movie on Netflix a while back and thought I had found Van Damme's 1992 movie. I was quite disappointed to find this turd instead. The acting was horrible. The video and audio quality was so bad the audio actually crackled at times. Go ahead and drop a brick on your head instead. If I could give it a negative vote I would.

This is the worst movie I have ever seen. I would not even call it a movie. I don't know how it is possible to release such kind of terrible crap. I wanted to give 0 points but there is no such thing, unfortunately. The basic story would be OK, but the whole move does not worth a dime. Directing is extremely poor, actors ... I would not even call them actors, special effects very lame and the whole things was... well I don't know what to write 10 lines regarding this movie, it was SOB A D !!!TERRIBLE!Do not ever watch it!

SPOILERS: There have been at least five films entitled "Universal Soldier" since 1971, six if you include "Soldier" [1998]. This one is the latest attempt at name association but has nothing to do with any of those previous better made movies. A squad breaks out of a facility as they're being attacked by experimental Borg like creatures. Though there were some promising aspects to the story (secret super powered cyborg like creatures that ran amok and killed their handlers), the film can't help but shoot itself in the foot with horrible acting, dimwitted dialogue, and a total departure from standard military protocol. Griff Furst, who wrote and directed this, obviously never spent a day in uniform, and he should hire consultants before attempting to use military settings or characters. Draping uniforms onto actors doesn't make a believable army. The interactions of the personnel in this movie are so far removed from the code of conduct of real soldiers, that these actors might as well have shown up at a swim meet dressed in tuxedos. Inotherwords, they're very obviously out of place. Real GI's definitely bitch and moan; but they would never, ever, question a superior officer in the insubordinate manner that these actors do, especially on a battlefield, regardless of the situational stress. The constant bickering between officers and enlisted ranks portrayed here simply isn't possible. Next, the idea that US soldiers will euthanize severely wounded comrades like lame horses is an insult to their integrity. Even if forced by extreme tactical need to leave a wounded comrade behind, they would never kill him to "put him out of his misery" so to speak. In the movie's closing, the sloppy salute from the lone survivor had me rolling on the floor. It was a perfect example of someone never having worn a uniform trying to look the part. Military bearing aside, the film looked as if it was propped by Army-Navy surplus, brimming with leftovers from the last half century, and used liberally in the movie without rhyme or reason. One big goof was having ammunition bandoleers stuffed with empty brass casings; ie. worthless spent cartridges so what's the point in carrying them around? Many of the weapons used belonged to foreign inventories (ie former Warsaw Pact). And the helmets found in one cache was from the WW2 era. Aside from the prop miscues, the acting all around was consistently bad, and interspersed with comically exaggerated "action" figure poses; one guy persistently had his M16 high up in the air as if he were walking through imaginary waist high water all the time. Maybe the director thought it cool; I found it rather ridiculous. The only admirable bright spot was the Bad-a.ssed Terminator-esquire CGI Bot that appeared briefly near the end of the movie. But overall nothing could save this from being a sad reflection on how shallow the film making industry has become. Rating? 02/10 and I'm trying to be generous. Ralph