Solo is the perfect soldier, a humanoid android designed not only to follow his programming, but also to learn. The problem is, he ends up learning the value of human life, and on a mission in Latin America he refuses to carry out an order that would mean the death of many innocent civilians. Not wanting to be reprogrammed, he escapes into the jungle and joins a group of repressed villagers. Based on "Weapon," a novel by Robert Mason.
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Mario Van Peebles stars as a force of one in Solo, the high-tech adventure about an army android who learns to think - and kill û for himself.
The army's biggest threat since the atom bomb, Solo is an indestructible android wired to win every battle. But when innocent civilians are torched by his unit, Solo discovers he's on the wrong side of an illegal operation.
Now the army's ultimate weapon is waging a one-man war against his own creators.
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There is a hint, albeit a very brief one, of James Whale's classic 1931 Frankenstein in this low-budget movie about a robot soldier, Solo (Mario Van Peebles), created by the Pentagon to be the perfect, unfeeling fighting machine. When Solo is sent into Central American jungles to battle guerrillas, a flaw in his program emerges when it is discovered that he has compassion and a conscience. Fleeing his keepers, the robot becomes part of a jungle village after its inhabitants get over the need to run from him (this is where the Frankenstein parallel comes in). The film isn't particularly clever, just noisy and ugly, and one can't help but think of it as a knock-off of The Terminator. Van Peebles doesn't seem the ideal choice for an action hero along the lines of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Kurt Russell--who do this kind of thing well--but then again this is straight-to-video fodder. --Tom Keogh
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