James Purefoy

Pete Postlethwaite

Alice Krige

Mackenzie Crook

Max von Sydow

Jason Flemyng

Rachel Hurd-Wood

Mark O'Neal

Robert Orr

Richard Ryan

Ian Whyte

Geoff Bell

Rory McCann

Curtis Matthew

Samuel Roukin

James Babson

Anthony Wilks

Isabel Bassett

Patrick Hurd-Wood

Marek Vašut

Christian Dunckley Clark

Frantisek Deak

Thomas McEnchroe

Andrew Whitlaw

Lucas Stone

Robert Russell

Matthew Stirling

Laura Baranik

Andrea Miltner

Philip Winchester

Robert E. Howard

Klaus Badelt

Dan Laustsen

Andrew MacRitchie

Nancy Bishop

Ros Hubbard

John Bloomfield

M.J. Bassett

John Hubbard

Ricky Eyres

Paul Berrow

Samuel Hadida

David Baxa

Lee Gordon

Sarka Zvolenska

Linda Eisenhamerová

Barbara Kichi

Ivo Strangmüller

Růžena Novotná

Gabriela Poláková

Paul Pattison

Josef Rarach

Vlad Taupesh

Lisa Buscher

Brian Wade

Erwin H. Kupitz

Lukás Kraina

Katherin-Ellen Zabehlicky

Tobie Cote

Chris Rosewarne

Greg Staples

Enrique Torres

Pavel Tatar

Ray McNeill

Stefan Mily

Michel Doré

Tyler Gooden

Kurt Van Der Basch

Adam Dale

Miro Gábor

Tim Wooster

Prokop Satochin

Colin Holloway

Geoff Holloway

Petr Hons

Martin Tichy

Jan Carda

František Novák

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Kriz David

Ivo Grešák

Larry D. Horricks

Michal Chadima

Abigail Barbier

Patricie Šoptenková

Jiřina Eisenhamerová

Jitka Švecová

Larisa Šrámková

Maria Hubackova

Dita Valentinova

Imran Sajid

Nicholas Hampshire

Nick Hanks

James Nicholl

Jonathan Wood

Indraneel Guha

Tushar Kewlani

Xavier Allard

Samantha Tracey

Michele De Benedetti

Lucy Tanner

Phil Ashton

Laura Jennings

Jakub Olexa

Pierre Escande

François-Xavier Aubague

Tim Field

Stephen Elson

Carla Diamond

Tereza Mandic Listikova

Gary E. Beach

Laurens Ehrmann

Andrew Morley

Simon Carr

Patrick Tatopoulos

Kamil Jaffar

Pavel Sagner

Milos Brosinger

Miroslav Miclík

Rudolf Tudzaroff

Jirí Vater

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Steve Little

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Solomon Kane

Davis Films

Czech Anglo Pictures

Wandering Star Pictures

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Czech Republic

France

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العربية

mercenary

trap

murder

puritan

sorcerer

gothic horror

covered wagon

monastery

mercy killing

healing

hanged body

pile of gold

16th century

sword and sorcery

Reno

**In the 17th England, a ruthless warrior set to rediscover his path.**

There's no reason, but after a long due I saw this. I'm pretty impressed with the film's production, but in the end it was an average film for me. James Purefoy was good, but the story needed someone very husky looking actor to play the Solomon. That's what spoiled my watch, other than that I enjoyed most of the film. Because the tone and the pace were excellent, but it was a predictable story.

A savage warrior leading his men somewhere in the Northern Africa, when he's sensing he almost defeated them, comes to know his soul is damned. He escapes there, leaves his all that life behind and looks for a peaceful future. He was born to be a warrior, that's why he left his own kingdom. So in his second chance to rediscover his path, he must achieve the impossible to defeat his opponent.

Full of dark and wet atmosphere really gives that required medieval look. The locations were well used and also the costumes, so if you like films that sets in this era, particularly stunts, then you might enjoy it. But if you ask me, I would say it is just a one time watchable film. Entertainment is guaranteed, but because of something, the film does not not look complete. So recommended for the selected viewers.

_6/10_

If I kill you I am bound for hell. It's a price I shall gladly pay.

Solomon Kane is directed by Michael J. Bassett and Bassett adapts the character of Kane from the magazine character created by Robert E. Howard. It stars James Purefoy, Rachael Hurd-Wood, Pete Postlethwaite and Anthony Wilks. Music is by Klaus Badelt and cinematography by Dan Laustsen.
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It's early 1600 and English mercenary Solomon Kane (Purefoy) is informed by the Devils Reaper that his wicked ways have damned his soul for eternity. Not wanting to spend eternity with old Nick and all his hellish instruments of torture, Kane escapes and renounces violence and converts to Puritanism - that is until a wicked turn of events in his life sends him on the violent road to redemption.

Solomon Kane was created by pulp writer Robert E. Howard, who would a few years later also create Conan The Barbarian, safe to say then that swords and sorcery was at the time of his life in the 1920s/30s on his mind. It's also safe to say here that if this type of genre swish and swash is not your thing then this will definitely not convert you into being someone who suddenly does. However, fans of such fare are in for a treat, where not for the first time a picture that bombed at the box office - and got a delayed release in The States - has broken free of supposed stinker damnation to become a firm cult favourite to like minded souls.

Kane is our anti-hero, a real hard dude who ends up living by the fight evil with evil mantra. In the hands of Purefoy and his director, Kane is moody personified, the whole film dishing out ladles of brood and dark thematics as religion and dark arts come under the microscope. The action is well choreographed, plenty of blood letting and head loping, accompanied by swivels and lurches. Imagery is potent - such as graveyards and reaper lairs, while Bassett firmly believes in soaking his cast in mud and rags, all for realistic payment.

Some popular actors slot in for some support work, which is a bonus, and although the finale is not without problems (main baddie all to brief, the big showdown likewise), this rounds out as an imaginatively and thrillingly mounted period genre piece. 8/10

Filipe Manuel Neto

**If we can forget the errors in historical recreation and the blatant predictability of the script, it's a good film for an idle evening.**

I don't know Robert E. Howard's literary work very well, but I confess that I don't like “Conan” and I feel that the fantasy genre has seen better days. However, what I saw in this film pleased me: it's good enough to entertain us satisfactorily, but it's not the kind of film we'll want to see more than a handful of times.

Solomon Kane is a mercenary, played by James Purefoy, in a great effort. The actor is truly good for the role: he has enough charisma to give himself the leading role he needs, he is not too old for the character nor does he seem too young. Pete Postlethwaite is also a magnificent addition to the cast as yet another character full of dignity and very likeable. Max von Sydow also provides discreet support. The only person I didn't like very much was Rachel Hurd-Wood: she doesn't have much to do other than being permanently in danger.

The script starts well, with a story about a cruel man who over the years committed looting and crimes, and finally understands that he will go to Hell. From then on he tries to change, but it becomes increasingly clear that this man will have to face his past at some point if he truly wants to redeem himself. This finally happens when he has to defeat an evil wizard. I don't want to say much more, but it's quite easy to see that the big problem with this script is the way in which we easily predict what's going to happen, the predictability of the whole story. This is the film's big problem.

Another problem with this film is the way in which the past was recreated: I didn't feel, on the part of the production, any desire to place the action precisely in time and space. The script, however, required it! It is quite evident that the story takes place around 1650 in the fields of South East England, in Dorset. The construction of the sets, costumes and props simply ignored this whenever they could. The cinematography, for example, is magnificently crafted and presents us with hazy, gloomy and dark landscapes, and semi-ruined places. We have no resemblance to the English countryside, but it is the ideal setting for the dark story that will unfold and creates an atmosphere in a very intelligent way. Anachronistic fighting styles, anachronistic weapons and accessories, clothing that doesn't resemble anything that existed in the past, flintlock pistols whose sound effect resembles that of a revolver... M. J. Bassett makes several mistakes. In return, there is a lot of action, fights for all tastes that give the film a lot of flow and movement, as if it were a music video, and excellent CGI that creates a vast multiplicity of evil creatures.

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Solomon Kane( 2009)

Fight evil... With evil.

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Written by Reno on Tue Oct 04 2016

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