The action is neither big nor imaginatively filmed enough to satisfy fans of the genre, though Van Peebles seems to be enjoying his crack at sad-eyed, Chaplinesque pathos.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 27, 2014

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 28, 2013

Here'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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 28, 2013

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.

| May 28, 2013

Solo is at least instructive as a miscellany of action movie cliches in one neat and depressing package.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 28, 2013

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.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2002

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?

| Jan 22, 2002

A lackluster action-adventure.

| Feb 14, 2001

Not one fight is memorable, and the set looks recycled from an Indiana Jones theme park.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

As movie androids go, Solo is a softie, and that's his problem.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

For what it is, a straightforward sci-fi action movie with an equally straightforward hero, Solo works.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Soloflex might be a better title.

| Original Score: D | Aug 23, 1996