Solo (1996)
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 30
Featuring hammy performances and bland characters, Solo is an all too straightforward actioner that's both predictable and instantly forgettable.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 11
Featuring hammy performances and bland characters, Solo is an all too straightforward actioner that's both predictable and instantly forgettable.
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The American military-industrial complex has a blueprint for the perfect mechanical soldier. Unfortunately, the prototype, Solo (Mario Van Peebles), has responded appropriately to his programming (which requires him to reason things out on his own), with results that the designers didn't anticipate and don't like. For one thing, he objects to killing innocent bystanders. Already one of their covert operations has been ruined by his scruples. The manufacturers have given orders that he is to be
Aug 23, 1996 Wide
Mar 6, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Cast
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Mario Van Peebles
Solo -
Barry Corbin
Gen. Clyde Haynes -
Bill Sadler
Col. Frank Madden -
Adrien Brody
Bill Stewart -
Seidy Lopez
Agela -
Abraham J. Verduzco
Miguel -
Julian Bucio
Rebel in Church -
Álvaro Carcaño
Elder #1 -
Greg Collins
Scanion -
Jaime Gómez
Lorenzo -
Christopher Michael
Flight Deck Officer -
William Ungerman
Bayne -
Abel Woolrich
Lazaro -
John Flock
Lab Tech -
William A. Wallace
Mr. Thompson -
Norberto Barba
Rebel Soldier -
Damián Bechir
Rio -
Joaquin Garrido
Vasquez -
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All Critics (32) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (30) | DVD (4)
These escapist showdown movies are only as good as their villains and heroes. The heavies here are more of those ubiquitous gung-ho military types who are due to be dishonorably discharged from further cinematic duty.
Top CriticHere's a surprise tucked into the languishing days of summer movies. Arriving with hardly any attention is a satisfying, even fun, action picture about a futuristic soldier named Solo.
Solo is at least instructive as a miscellany of action movie cliches in one neat and depressing package.
The best one can say for Norberto Barba is that he directs a slick piece of goods. But no amount of fast cutting or tempo can disguise the material's simplistic, thoughtless nature.
Since filmgoers are told early on that there is only one other super-cyborg prototype in the world, well, guess what the big climax is?
A lackluster action-adventure.
There are too many moments of unintentional comedy caused by the ropey macho dialogue and the hammy performances of bad guys William Sadler and Barry Corbin.
Since the hero and the villains are equally mechanical, the big, loud battles are as exciting and suspenseful as watching people play Mortal Kombat for 90 minutes.
Solo contains the usual shoot-'em-ups, an undistinguished performance from Van Peebles, plus lots of crummy dialogue.
Mindless entertainment for the end of the summer, with emphasis on the mindless.
It simply plods along to it's inevitable, uninvolving and pretty uninteresting end.
Silly action yarn furthering the demise of van Peebles.
It's not a great film, but it is a little above average.
The film ends up having more laughs than a comedy.
It's not a very good movie, but it is interesting.
Van Peebles' interpretation of an android puts one more in mind of some monstrously malformed Pinocchio than the gentle giant for which the producers were so obviously aiming.
There probably will be worse action films this year, but there probably won't be any funnier ones.
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