Rotten
Few characters have much to do but grunt and scream and bleed.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Solomon Kane
Fight evil... With evil.
2009 · 1h 44m · R
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Directed by
MJ Bassett
Overview
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
Director and cast
- MJ Bassett Director
- James Purefoy as Solomon Kane
- Pete Postlethwaite as William Crowthorn
- Alice Krige as Katherine Crowthorn
- Mackenzie Crook as Father Michael
- Max von Sydow as Josiah Kane
- Jason Flemyng as Malachi
- Rachel Hurd-Wood as Meredith Crowthorn
- Mark O'Neal as Kane's Soldier #1
- Robert Orr as Kane's Soldier #2
- Richard Ryan as Kane's Soldier #3
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Been there, done that.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh
"Solomon Kane" succeeds by embracing its identity as a straightforward genre exercise, complete with bone-crunching and blood-spurting action. By not aiming for more, it hits its target.
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Who knew there were skinhead and zombie equivalents in late-Elizabethan England?
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Fresh
It's hardly original (and Max von Sydow is wasted in brief scenes as Kane's father), but "Solomon Kane" is worthy of big-screen appreciation.
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
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