Solomon Kane Reviews

Amie Simon
Three Imaginary Girls
March 4, 2019
A film like this should be fun and you should really want to root for the hero. But Kane is so ... well, boring. Predictable. And honestly, a bit of a whiner.
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Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
September 29, 2012
Few characters have much to do but grunt and scream and bleed.
Original Score: 1.5/4
Todd Jorgenson
Cinemalogue
September 28, 2012
The script by director Michael J. Bassett wallows in formula and takes itself too seriously.
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Lou Lumenick
New York Post
September 28, 2012
Been there, done that.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
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Mark Feeney
Boston Globe
September 27, 2012
Who knew there were skinhead and zombie equivalents in late-Elizabethan England?
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
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Scott Tobias
NPR
September 27, 2012
It grinds along on the dubious strengths of its generic battle sequences and midbudget special effects, whipped up around a stone-faced hero who's part Christ figure, part embodiment of wickedness, all crippling bore.
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Calum Marsh
Slant Magazine
September 27, 2012
The fight choreography has a gracefulness bordering on elegance, and so it's a shame that these standalone thrills aren't better integrated into the film as a fully formed narrative whole.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
Roger Moore
Tribune News Service
September 27, 2012
Lacking a charismatic lead or villain, struggling with its big themes, it's not surprising this 2009 picture sat on the shelf for so long.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
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Keith Phipps
AV Club
September 27, 2012
The results suggest a compelling movie could be made from the material, even if it isn't this one.
Full Review | Original Score: C
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Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out
September 25, 2012
A borrowed mlange of Lord of the Rings pomp, weightless CGI sorcery, artfully smudged cheekbones and exceedingly dull sword slicings.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Ethan Alter
Television Without Pity
September 14, 2012
Both the movie and the hero are too relentlessly dour.
Brian Orndorf
Blu-ray.com
September 13, 2012
More numbing than rousing, leaving a perfectly acceptable lead performance from James Purefoy to carry the lion's share of the picture's appeal, and it's a weight that's often too much for the actor to bear.
Full Review | Original Score: C
Staci Layne Wilson
Horror.com
July 24, 2012
...a wet blanket of gloom and humorlessness.
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Scotsman
February 23, 2010
The film fails to take full advantage, possessing neither a sense of its own ridiculousness nor the flat-out propulsive energy that would make concerns about its hokey storyline irrelevant.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Dennis Harvey
Variety
October 12, 2009
This muscular yet monotonous Kane just isn't much fun.
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net
September 14, 2009
Storywise, it leaves a lot to be desired ... has many tonal and pacing problems, mainly because like the source material, it's all handled very seriously.
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10