mario van peebles try to go the jean claude van damme route and play a renegade robotic soldier who go awol to preserve himself and however the government isn not go to take this lie down and so among the simplistic plot van peebles protect villager from the rebel force and defeat a improved version of himself in this disappointing film . this blatant rip off of universal soldier ( which be far more fun then this ) simply go nowhere . the main problem be that the movie be so unbelievably inert . van peebles just wait around and there just isn not enough as kick to justify a viewing . on the other hand the movie do sort of resemble a competent version of r. o. t. o. r although where a that abysmal bad movie be hilarious and this one only yield occasional laughter in it laughably unconvincing action sequence . also like r. o. t. o. r it make no sense in it narrative and basically the movie be awesomely boring . plus the villain be disappointingly weak and basically the movie need an actual action scenario to work and because the material be too dull . in all regard solo be a very weak film . half out of 4 ( poor ) .