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Solomon Kane

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Solomon Kane
  • Genre: Action/Adventure, SciFi/Fantasy
  • Release Date: 2012-09-28 Limited
  • Running Time: 106 min.
  • Director: Michael J. Bassett
  • Cast: James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Mackenzie Crook, Philip Winchester, Robert Russell, Lucas Stone, Mark O'Neal, Robert Orr, Richard Ryan, Frantisek Deak
  • Producers: Paul Berrow, Samuel Hadida, Kevan Van Thompson
  • Writers: Michael J. Bassett, Robert E. Howard
  • Distributor: Radius-TWC
  • Official Site: Solomon Kane Official Site

Nobody seemed to have faith in this benighted, Robert E. Howard–based sword-and-sorcery demi-epic, which is 3 years old, has already wound its way through Europe and was preempted stateside by its own VOD release this past August. 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. Dyspeptic brooder James Purefoy is the Howard-esque blade-wielder in question, giving up his homicidal ways in 1600s England after the Devil threatens to take his soul, and then picking them up again in a flash to battle a demonic big boss and his black-pupiled orc-ish minions, who are kidnapping urchins and laying waste to old Blighty. Predictably, everything is draped in late Gilliam, and the action is meticulously humorless-- as Howard was himself. The sight of a "failed" witch burning, exploded out around the stake and scattered with eyeless corpses, suggests a more interesting medieval pulp tale, but what we get is brisk, atmospheric, and faithful, for better or worse, to Howard's earnest voice.

Michael Atkinson
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