2009 · adventure · fantasy · action
Solomon Kane
Directed by MJ Bassett1h 44m2009
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.
Our read: Solomon Kane (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive adventure · fantasy · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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