
Mario Van Peebles stars as an android killing weapon designed by the military and utilized to enter into a Latin American war to destroy the rebels - natives fighting simply to maintain their freedom. Contrary to his programming, he develops an affinity for the villagers and decides to help them fight back. This lets his creators bring him back and ultimately leads to one of them being given more powerful circuitry to defeat him.... (Full plot summary below)
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Mario Van Peebles stars as an android killing weapon designed by the military and utilized to enter into a Latin American war to destroy the rebels - natives fighting simply to maintain their freedom. Contrary to his programming, he develops an affinity for the villagers and decides to help them fight back. This lets his creators bring him back and ultimately leads to one of them being given more powerful circuitry to defeat him.
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| Seattle TimesDoug ThomasHere'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. |
| VarietyLeonard KladyThe 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. |
| eFilmCritic.comGreg MuskewitzSilly action yarn furthering the demise of van Peebles. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackFor what it is, a straightforward sci-fi action movie with an equally straightforward hero, Solo works. |
| South Florida Sun-SentinelRod DreherSolo contains the usual shoot-'em-ups, an undistinguished performance from Van Peebles, plus lots of crummy dialogue. |
| Tulsa WorldDennis KingHe's The Terminator's distant cousin. He's Solo, and he's jerrybuilt from parts of so many other movies that it's hard to recognize a single original element in this android-warrior saga with Mario Van Peebles in the thankless title role. |
| Chicago TribuneMark CaroThese 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. |
| Radio TimesJason CaroThere 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. |
| AV ClubJohn GustafsonSince 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. |
| Washington PostRichard HarringtonSince filmgoers are told early on that there is only one other super-cyborg prototype in the world, well, guess what the big climax is? |