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Robert De Niro's 'Apocalypse Now' Meets 'The Raid' War Thriller Is a Shock Streaming Sensation

By Sofia Martinez · Culture & Entertainment Editor

May 3, 2026 · 10 min read

Chris McPherson

Published May 3, 2026, 7:45 PM EDT

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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.

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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World_ Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars

Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you'd actually make it out of alive.

💊The Matrix 🔥Mad Max 🌧️Blade Runner 🏜️Dune 🚀Star Wars

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QUESTION 1 / 8INSTINCT

01 You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.

APull on every thread until I understand the system — then figure out how to break it. BStop asking questions and start stockpiling — food, fuel, weapons. Questions don't keep you alive. CKeep my head down, observe carefully, and trust no one until I know who's pulling the strings. DStudy the patterns. Every system has a rhythm — learn it, and you learn how to survive it. EFind the people fighting back and join them. You can't fix a broken galaxy alone.

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QUESTION 2 / 8RESOURCE

02 In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.

AKnowledge. If you understand the system, you don't need resources — you can generate them. BFuel. Everything else — movement, power, escape — runs on it. CTrust. In a world of fakes and informants, a truly reliable ally is rarer than any commodity. DWater. And after water, information — the two things empires are truly built on. EShips and credits. The galaxy is big — you survive it by being able to move through it freely.

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QUESTION 3 / 8THREAT

03 What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you're honest about what you're actually afraid of.

AThat reality itself is a lie — that everything I experience has been constructed to keep me compliant. BA raid. No warning, no mercy — just the roar of engines and then nothing left. CBeing identified. Once someone with power decides you're a problem, you're already out of time. DBeing outmanoeuvred — losing a political game I didn't even know I was playing. EThe Empire tightening its grip until there's nowhere left to run.

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QUESTION 4 / 8AUTHORITY

04 How do you deal with authority you don't trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.

ASubvert it from the inside — learn its rules well enough to weaponise them against it. BIgnore it and stay out of its reach. The further from any power structure, the better. CAppear to comply while doing exactly what I need to do. Visibility is the enemy. DManoeuvre within it carefully. You can't beat a system you refuse to understand. EResist openly when I have to. Some things are worth the risk of being seen.

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QUESTION 5 / 8ENVIRONMENT

05 Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn't just tactical — it's physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.

AUnderground bunkers and server rooms — cramped, artificial, but with access to everything that matters. BOpen wasteland — brutal sun, no shelter, constant movement. At least the threat is honest. CA dense, rain-soaked city where you can disappear into the crowd and nobody asks questions. DMerciless desert — extreme heat, no water, and something enormous living beneath the sand. EThe fringe — backwater planets and busy spaceports where the Empire's attention rarely reaches.

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QUESTION 6 / 8ALLIANCE

06 Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.

AA tight crew of believers who've seen behind the curtain and have nothing left to lose. BOne or two people I'd trust with my life. Any more than that and someone talks. CNobody, ideally. Alliances are liabilities. I work alone unless I have no choice. DA community bound by shared hardship and mutual survival — people who need each other to last. EA ragtag team with wildly different skills and total commitment when it counts.

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QUESTION 7 / 8MORALITY

07 Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they're actually made of.

AI won't harm the innocent — even the ones who'd report me without hesitation. BI do what I have to to protect the people I've chosen. Everything else is negotiable. CThe line shifts depending on who's asking and what's at stake. DI draw a long-term line — nothing that compromises my people's future, even if it'd help now. ESome lines, once crossed, can't be uncrossed. I know which ones they are.

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QUESTION 8 / 8PURPOSE

08 What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.

AWaking others up — dismantling the illusion so no one else has to live inside it. BFinding somewhere — or someone — worth protecting. A reason to keep moving. CAnswers. Understanding what I am, what any of this means, before time runs out. DLegacy — shaping the future in a way that outlasts me by generations. EFreedom — for myself, for others, for every world still living under someone else's boot.

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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You'd Survive In… 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.

The Resistance, Zion

The Matrix 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.

You're drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You'd find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines' worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You'd be the one probing the walls for the door.

The Wasteland

Mad Max 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 don't need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.

You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you're good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.

Los Angeles, 2049

Blade Runner You'd survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You're not a hero. But you're not lost, either.
In Blade Runner's world, that distinction is everything.

Arrakis

Dune Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they're survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You'd learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn't just survive Arrakis — you'd begin to reshape it.

A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Star Wars 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.

You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You'd gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire's grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn't something you're capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.

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Who Stars in 'Tin Soldier'?

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.

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Tin Soldier_ is streaming on Prime Video in select territories

Tin Soldier

Followed

Action

Thriller

Release Date**

May 8, 2025

Cast

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Scott Eastwood

WHERE TO WATCH

Streaming**

RENT

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Runtime

87 minutes

Director

Brad Furman

Writers

Pablo F.