| 13 June 2010
I was hesitant in watching Solomon Kane; I had heard about it and watched a trailer, but it looked to me like another attempt at milking a comic book story for some money. I read the Wikipedia article on the film and it said that it has an 82% "fresh" rating on rottentomatoes.com, which is really good for a community-fed statistic. Convinced of its merit, I decided to try it out.
To be honest, I couldn't stand it. It was a vague, slow, and unrelentingly boring film with CGI that is about 10 years out of date. It tells the tale of a guy that looks like Van Helsing who wears a pilgrim hat. Solomon's backstory is not very fleshed out beyond an obligatory flashback or two; being that this is the first film in a projected trilogy, they should have spent more time working the character's motivations so that I would actually want to watch the next two films. And in this case, I will not be watching the next two films.
And by the by, there are only 17 reviews up on rottentomatoes.com, so I don't think it's an accurate assessment. Rather, you should consider the hundreds of reviewers that were so unimpressed that they couldn't get around to writing something.
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