solo start a a team of u soldier go into soth america to blow up a rebel airstrip and join them be a robot name solo ( mario van peebles ) who can use any weapon ever make and be fifteen time strong and ten time faster than any human be . something go wrong though and solo refuse to kill innocent civilian which colonel frank madden ( william sadler ) isn not happy about and back at base and general haynes ( barry corbin ) order solo to be shut down and reprogrammed . one of solo main directive be self preservation so decide to escape back into the south american jungle where colonel madden and his men be send in to recapture it . this mexican american co production be direct by norberto barba and one have to say solo be awful . the script by david corley be base on the novel weapon by robert mason and be one cliché after another and robot be popular at the time solo be make in hollywood and at the box office so solo rip offs the like of robocop ( 1987 ) and universal soldier ( 1992 ) and the two terminator flick as well a have the same setting and basic story a predator ( 1987 ) . this be the usual rubbish about an emotionless robot who grow a sense of humanity while be around people and at first he doesn not know what a joke be or why one person would care for another but by the end he develop emotion and start to befriend people and sound like terminator 2 represent judgment day ( 1991 ) to me . the character be poor and colonel madden in particular be give absolutely no motivation for hat solo at all and why he would kill other u soldier and disobey order to destroy it . you know i saw this on cable telly last night for free ( thank god i do not spend any money on it ) and i look it up in the tv guide and do you know what it say . my tv guide describe solo a a wouldire sci fi action star mario van peebels which when i think about it be a perfect description of solo . in less than ten word my tv guide have hit the nail on the head and i mean it a sci fi action film and it certainly star mario van peebles and it definitely dire . enough say really . director barba doesn not do anything particularly special here and the action scene lack any real excitement and the sci fi element be virtually none existent apart from the fact solo be a robot . so the military lose solo and colonel madden be send in to recapture it right . i be not be funny but wouldn not the military have put a elf destruct mechanism inside solo in case something like that happen . surely at the very least solo would have have a tracking device inside it so the military would at least know where it be at any give time . i be not be funny but these people can come up with a walk talk robotic soldier but they be not clever enough to realise that a tracking or self destruct device might be useful if anything go wrong . the violence be mild and there be a few ok fight scene but this be pretty weak stuff really . technically the film look alright and be competently make and it be actually shoot in mexico . the maker of the dolph lundgren action flick agent red ( 2000 ) edit footage from solo into that film . the acting be poor and van peebles be the perfect choice to play an emotionless robot . william sadler deserve good than this and it be only a few year prior he be star in the fantastic die hard 2 represent die harder ( 1990 ) . solo be a really bad sci fi action flick which be basically a huge rip off of big budget hollywood sci fi action film like robocop and universal soldier and the terminator film . not recommend and i be go to start and pay more attention to my tv guide when it come to choose film to watch .