Review of Soldiers of Fortune (2012) by Andy Webster for New York Times — 04 Aug 2012

For the cast, shooting the movie (in Ukraine) may have been a working vacation, but for viewers, watching it is an excruciating sentence of hard labor.

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This review of Soldiers of Fortune (2012) was written by Andy Webster and published by New York Times on 04 Aug 2012.

Soldiers of Fortune has generally received negative reviews.

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