solo starts as a team of us soldiers go into soth america to blow up a rebel airstrip and joining them is a robot named solo (mario van peebles) who can use any weapon ever made and is fifteen times stronger and ten times faster than any human being. something goes wrong though and solo refuses to kill innocent civilians which colonel frank madden (william sadler) isn not happy about and back at base and general haynes (barry corbin) orders solo to be shut down and reprogrammed. one of solo main directives is self preservation so decides to escape back into the south american jungles where colonel madden and his men are sent in to recapture it. this mexican american co production was directed by norberto barba and one has to say solo is awful. the script by david corley was based on the novel weapon by robert mason and is one cliché after another and robots were popular at the time solo was made in hollywood and at the box office so solo rip offs the likes of robocop (1987) and universal soldier (1992) and the two terminator flicks as well as having the same setting and basic story as predator (1987). this is the usual rubbish about an emotionless robot who grows a sense of humanity while being around people and at first he doesn not know what a joke is or why one person would care for another but by the end he develops emotions and starts to befriend people and sounds like terminator 2 represent judgment day (1991) to me. the character are poor and colonel madden in particular is given absolutely no motivation for hating solo at all and why he would kill other us soldiers and disobey orders to destroy it. you know i saw this on cable telly last night for free (thank god i do not spend any money on it) and i looked it up in the tv guide and do you know what it said. my tv guide described solo as a wouldire sci fi action starring mario van peebels which when i think about it is a perfect description of solo. in less than ten words my tv guide has hit the nail on the head and i mean it a sci fi action film and it certainly stars mario van peebles and it definitely dire. enough said really. director barba doesn not do anything particularly special here and the action scenes lack any real excitement and the sci fi elements are virtually none existent apart from the fact solo is a robot. so the military lose solo and colonel madden is sent in to recapture it right. i am not being funny but do not the military have put a elf destruct mechanism inside solo in case something like that happened. surely at the very least solo would have had a tracking device inside it so the military would at least know where it was at any given time. i am not being funny but these people can come up with a walking talking robotic soldier but they are not clever enough to realise that a tracking or self destruct device might be useful if anything went wrong. the violence is mild and there are a few ok fight scenes but this is pretty weak stuff really. technically the film looks alright and is competently made and it was actually shot in mexico. the makers of the dolph lundgren action flick agent red (2000) edited footage from solo into that film. the acting is poor and van peebles was the perfect choice to play an emotionless robot. william sadler deserves better than this and it was only a few years prior he was staring in the fantastic die hard 2 represent die harder (1990). solo is a really bad sci fi action flick which is basically a huge rip off of big budget hollywood sci fi action films like robocop and universal soldier and the terminator films. not recommend and i am going to start and pay more attention to my tv guide when it comes to choosing films to watch. 
solo starts as a team of us soldiers go into soth america to blow up a rebel airstrip and joining them is a robot named solo (mario van peebles) who can use any weapon ever made and is fifteen times stronger and ten times faster than any human being. something goes wrong though and solo refuses to kill innocent civilians which colonel frank madden (william sadler) isn not happy about and back at base and general haynes (barry corbin) orders solo to be shut down and reprogrammed. one of solo main directives is self preservation so decides to escape back into the south american jungles where colonel madden and his men are sent in to recapture it. this mexican american co production was directed by norberto barba and one has to say solo is awful. the script by david corley was based on the novel weapon by robert mason and is one cliché after another and robots were popular at the time solo was made in hollywood and at the box office so solo rip offs the likes of robocop (1987) and universal soldier (1992) and the two terminator flicks as well as having the same setting and basic story as predator (1987). this is the usual rubbish about an emotionless robot who grows a sense of humanity while being around people and at first he doesn not know what a joke is or why one person would care for another but by the end he develops emotions and starts to befriend people and sounds like terminator 2 represent judgment day (1991) to me. the character are poor and colonel madden in particular is given absolutely no motivation for hating solo at all and why he would kill other us soldiers and disobey orders to destroy it. you know i saw this on cable telly last night for free (thank god i do not spend any money on it) and i looked it up in the tv guide and do you know what it said. my tv guide described solo as a wouldire sci fi action starring mario van peebels which when i think about it is a perfect description of solo. in less than ten words my tv guide has hit the nail on the head and i mean it a sci fi action film and it certainly stars mario van peebles and it definitely dire. enough said really. director barba doesn not do anything particularly special here and the action scenes lack any real excitement and the sci fi elements are virtually none existent apart from the fact solo is a robot. so the military lose solo and colonel madden is sent in to recapture it right. i am not being funny but do not the military have put a elf destruct mechanism inside solo in case something like that happened. surely at the very least solo would have had a tracking device inside it so the military would at least know where it was at any given time. i am not being funny but these people can come up with a walking talking robotic soldier but they are not clever enough to realise that a tracking or self destruct device might be useful if anything went wrong. the violence is mild and there are a few ok fight scenes but this is pretty weak stuff really. technically the film looks alright and is competently made and it was actually shot in mexico. the makers of the dolph lundgren action flick agent red (2000) edited footage from solo into that film. the acting is poor and van peebles was the perfect choice to play an emotionless robot. william sadler deserves better than this and it was only a few years prior he was staring in the fantastic die hard 2 represent die harder (1990). solo is a really bad sci fi action flick which is basically a huge rip off of big budget hollywood sci fi action films like robocop and universal soldier and the terminator films. not recommend and i am going to start and pay more attention to my tv guide when it comes to choosing films to watch. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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