A forgotten **Robert De Niro **war thriller has quietly become a Prime Video action curiosity, which is exactly what happens when you put a bizarrely starry cast and a heavily armed cult compound in the same sentence. The action thriller has been moving up Prime Video’s charts in international markets, giving the movie a second burst of attention after a relatively quiet release. Think Apocalypse Now meets The Raid, only with more damaged veterans and a cult leader who absolutely does not seem like he runs a healthy workplace.
*Tin Soldier *follows former soldier Nash Cavanaugh, who is pulled back into violence when a cult leader known as The Bokushi corrupts his former comrades. The Bokushi promises veterans purpose and protection, but his fortress-like operation hides something much darker. Which, yes, is usually what happens when someone starts offering “purpose” from inside a compound. Who hasn’t been tempted to just join a random cult led by a charismatic enigma, anyway?
Tin Soldier is very much a streaming-revival story rather than a box office success story. Despite its buzzy cast, it walked in and out of movie theaters like Grandpa Simpson spotting Bart working at the burlesque house, despite reportedly carrying a sizable estimated budget of around $45 million. A disaster in financial terms, its theatrical gross was tiny, coming in under $100,000 worldwide in reported markets.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
The cast includes Jamie Foxx (Ray, Django Unchained) as The Bokushi, Robert De Niro (Goodfellas, The Irishman) as Emmanuel Ashburn, Scott Eastwood (Fury, The Longest Ride) as Nash Cavanaugh, John Leguizamo (Moulin Rouge!, John Wick) as Luke, and Nora Arnezeder (Army of the Dead, Safe House) as Evoli, and it’s directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer, The Infiltrator).
Fortunately for De Niro, he’s barely in this and such was the limited viewership of the movie it’s also unlikely to have done him any harm. In fact, he’s revisiting one of his most iconic roles later this year, reprising the part of the psychotic ex-CIA agent Jack Byrnes in Focker-in-Law, the fourth in the Meet the Parents series. Also returning are Ben Stiller as Gaylord Focker, **Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, **and Owen Wilson, with new additions including Superman’s Skyler Gisondo and ***Wicked ***breakout Ariana Grande, who looks to be getting a lot of the big laughs in the recent trailer.
Tin Soldier is streaming on Prime Video in select territories
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