Been there, done that.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | 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

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 27, 2012

[It] does have its moments and gets better as it goes along.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2012

The results suggest a compelling movie could be made from the material, even if it isn't this one.

| Original Score: C | Sep 27, 2012

It is, for a contemporary CGI-fraught fantasy-slash-living-video-game, not at all bad, dotted with moments of Bosch and steady on its storytelling feet.

| Sep 25, 2012

A borrowed mlange of Lord of the Rings pomp, weightless CGI sorcery, artfully smudged cheekbones and exceedingly dull sword slicings.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2012

If weapons and wizardry get your blood up, and you prefer your movies dark and brooding and minus the sandals, Solomon Kane fits the bill. It may lack The Lord Of The Rings' majesty, but Robert E. Howard fans will lap it up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2010

A monstrously entertaining action-adventure... the film's epic vision bears comparison with the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy, its imaginative supernatural elements confidently fused with a savage reality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2010

There's plenty that's good here: a serious tone, steady pacing, muddy and bloody scenery and a convincing turn by Purefoy in his own west country accent. But Kane is an ill fit into the origins tale template; it's a story with few surprises.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2010

This muscular yet monotonous Kane just isn't much fun.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2009