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Released
1999 · FILM

Universal Soldier: The Return

Former super-soldier Luc Deveraux must race against a rogue AI‑controlled war machine and its elite army of unstoppable soldiers to prevent a catastrophic revenge plot that threatens humanity.

“Prepare to become obsolete.”

Directed by
Mic Rodgers
Written by
Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch
Runtime
82 min
ActionSci-Fi

Synopsis

Luc Deveraux, a former Universal Soldier, is drawn back into conflict when SETH, a supercomputer-controlled ultra-warrior, seeks revenge against its creators. As SETH launches a campaign of destruction, Luc becomes the only one capable of stopping it. The situation escalates as Luc faces off against SETH and a team of elite, deadly soldiers in a conflict that highlights the struggle between man and machine, and between good and evil.

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Principal cast & crew: 24

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peck PriorShot by Mike BensonScored by Don DavisDesigned by David Chapman

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.7M

Budget$33.5M
Worldwide gross$10.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.6M — 43% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $6.2M — 58% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,639 theaters

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Also known as

  • Universal Soldier - Die Rückkehrde
  • Universial Soldier - Die Rückkehrde
  • Universal Soldier: The Returnen
  • Universal Soldier : le Combat absolufr
  • Universal Soldier: Il ritornoit

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