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.

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.

First off- a quote from the film:Solo: My brain isn't in my head. It's in here Girl: If your brain is in your chest, where is your heart? Solo: I don't have one.I'm beginning to become like a dowsing rod for a bad film. Either that or I'm just watching films that come on Channel 5 more often. I kept seeing ads for Solo and just got that feeling that it would be worth watching, as 1) Mario Van Peebles is crap and 2) It was on Channel 5. Van Peebles is a cyborg built by the military to waste folk. Trouble is he's got a design fault that makes him NOT kill people. Doh. So they decide to get rid of him but he picks up the message to suspend the project (how I'm not sure - he just sort of looks up at a wall), so he jumps ship and heads for a South American village, which is naturally being bullied by rebels or drug dealers or something. I'm not to sure what they are, but be assured the village is full of stereotypes for Solo to interact with. The military sends out Sadler to kick Solo's ass, but Sadler is nuts and seems to shoot people just for the sake of it. Meanwhile Solo is teaching the locals how to fight, as being a computer type allows him to translate Spanish, but then the film forgets and everyone just talks English or something. This film is a mish-mash of Robocop, Universal Soldier and Terminator. It's also very very stupid and unintentionally funny. I loved the love interest, even though he's a robot. Or many of the inexplicable moments that are never explained, like how Solo just appears in a pool of water, how he jumps up onto a helicopter, or how connecting himself up to a generator charges him up. There's very little violence until the end, when everyone gets wasted. Sadler gets his back broke and then reappears as a cyborg! The word 'illogical' is overused by Solo in his attempts to be more human, and the scene where he's being taught what a joke his had me cringing. Are Van Damme films as bad as this? If they are, I might give them a go.

When I stumbled on SOLO on cable TV and realized Adrien Brody, one of my favorite actors, was third-billed in this Mario Van Peebles action flick, I decided to record it and check it out later for the heck of it. Turns out that was a good idea, since I got the most enjoyment out of this derivative SF/action/adventure when I simply gave up and fast-forwarded to Brody's scenes as Solo's endearingly scruffy creator Dr. Bill Stewart (sounds like the kind of bland name they'd give the hero in a 1950s creature feature -- told you SOLO was derivative! :-). Brody's one of the few performers in the film who actually says his lines with heart and conviction. When he was emoting opposite Van Peebles & Co., I wonder if Brody ever thought one day he'd be winning an Oscar for his starring turn in a Roman Polanski drama? :-) Adrien Brody fans, get the VCR ready; genre fans, try renting THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, FRANKENSTEIN, THE TERMINATOR, or any of the other movies that SOLO rips off! :-)