...action is ferocious and bloody, but light on CGI...the film looks spectacular without over-doing the fantasy worlds...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2021

All the positive qualities are wasted on the overdramatic twist of the commonplace antihero who must reluctantly return to the darkness of his past.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 2, 2020

Solomon Kane seduces with stunning visuals, sweeping swordplay and one sexy leading man.

| Nov 27, 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.

| Mar 4, 2019

It amalgamates action, drama, horror and fantasy into a unique hybrid that thrives on all parts at once, while not betraying the core of Howard's original character.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 4, 2018

Bassett brings to the screen Solomon Kane...with all due seriousness and gravity, as apparently befits the character.

| May 18, 2018

It's not everyone's cup of bloody tea, but an unapologetic genre treat for those willing to dive in.

| Original Score: B | Mar 14, 2013

Formulaic, but it settles down into a fine if square-jawed groove, delivering rousing adventure of a sort which should generally please fans of throwback, morally black-and-white entertainment.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 1, 2012

Director Michael J. Bassett seems to know how to correctly handle the material, giving it a lightness of touch but also enough bloody and shocking spectacle to stir up viewers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2012

Writer/director Michael J. Bassett stages the carnage under so much rain-soaked filth, you can almost smell the stench. It's a good stench.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 2, 2012

Uneven and far less deep that it believes itself to be, Solomon Kane is nevertheless a solid B-movie diversion that excels when sticking to its pulpy, action-fantasy roots.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 28, 2012

The script by director Michael J. Bassett wallows in formula and takes itself too seriously.

| Sep 28, 2012

If some of the special effects aren't so special and the theology is bit foggy, director Bassett knows that there is almost nothing more inherently scary than a dark forest and leading man Purefoy brings conviction to Kane.

| Original Score: B | Sep 28, 2012

Been there, done that.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 28, 2012

Bassett gives us plenty of reasons to respect his tale, then refuses to break that contract with cheap tricks or shoddy delivery.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 28, 2012

"Solomon Kane" succeeds by embracing its identity as a straightforward genre exercise, complete with bone-crunching and blood-spurting action. By not aiming for more, it hits its target.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 27, 2012

Who knew there were skinhead and zombie equivalents in late-Elizabethan England?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 27, 2012

It's hardly original (and Max von Sydow is wasted in brief scenes as Kane's father), but "Solomon Kane" is worthy of big-screen appreciation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2012

Mr. Basset is too enamored of the usual action film clichs ... But he has a graphic visual style that suits the simplistic material and he keeps you watching even as the wet, sucking sounds of skewered flesh grows tedious.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 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.

| Sep 27, 2012