samvideo Uh, just a comment but you've linked this 3.9 movie to Solo: A Star Wars Story on google. You may want to change that.

Leofwine_draca This fun sci-fi romp is enjoyable enough viewing for undemanding viewers, that is if you don't mind watching unoriginal action-packed adventures which tend to rip off themes from THE TERMINATOR (pretty much the norm for any '90s android film). Really, I don't understand all the negative comments about this film; I've seen a lot worse, and at least this never forgets to be fun. It's a fast-paced movie with loads of action and special effects to keep it entertaining, even if we've seen it all before.At least the rip-offs are varied here and it's not just a straight take on one film (like DNA was). The jungle setting is fun and an excuse for lots of nice scenery which brings to mind PREDATOR. The action scenes, while ludicrous, are fun to watch with baddies having the necks snapped and falling prey to various jungle traps (a favourite staple of mine) which Solo sets up for them. There's even a surprisingly nasty back-breaking in there for good measure. The final android vs. android battle is hilarious, and has people flying all over the place.Mario Van Peebles is expectedly wooden in the lead role, but unexpectedly, this seems to work in the film's favour - it goes with his character. Favourite baddie William Sadler also gets to put in a hissably villainous turn in not one, but two roles, and makes a nicely imposing enemy for Peebles to face. For some blessed reason the film isn't saddled down with a boring romance plot between the android and a woman, in fact there are no major roles for women here. Sadly, we do get the stereotypically annoying Asian kid who serves as an aide for our hero.Sure, this isn't intelligent entertainment or even original. But it's a fun experience, and is never boring. There are plenty of pyrotechnics and violence to keep viewers happy and a more interesting plot than most films of this ilk. It's cheap, but the budget is used for plenty of outlandish special effects which I always like (especially the impressive "robo-vision", with loads of swirling colours). Worth catching if you like this particular sub-genre of cyborg/android films.

alanjones792 Solo is a poor film - that cannot be ignored. The acting for the most part is very wooden (the only exception is Adrien Brody's performance as Solo's creator Bill) and the story is slight enough that you would probably forget it WHILST you where watching the film. That said, such films are more about the action than the plot/acting and, as such, live or die by the action set pieces - that after all is the point of such films - to give 14 year-olds something to smile at whilst the adults watch films of actual substance. And even on this Solo fails to deliver - what little action there is is poorly done, dull and uninspired. After seeing the trailer for this on television I was hoping for something along the lines of Predator with a robot replacing the Predaot. Instead I got a fairly lifeless action film with a poorly constructed attempt at depth by taking on message that robots can feel too. Watch Terminator II or Predator instead.. both classics that this film desperately wants to be except it lacks the inspiration or, to be fair, the budget.

holothane Got it cheap so didn't waste too much money on it. I brought for one reason only William Sadler, not enougth scenes of him but Spoiler coming up, when William Sadler steps out as new improved Solo, ooh I was impressed, forget the original Solo. (Got it on dvd so tend to fast forward a lot of scenes anyway) William Sadler was more my thing, very sexy scene yes I'm female as you'v proberly guessed. The story is nothing new but for me I was pleased I got, but I wouldn't have paid full price though. Van Peeples I'v never heard off before and not my cup of tea. But if you're a William Sadler fan, try and get this cheap if you can.