SOLO (film)

SOLO. Norberta Barba, dir. USA/Mexico: Triumph (release), 1996. John Flock, Joseph N. Cohen, prod. Mario Van Peebles, star. William Sadler, featured villain. Based on Robert Mason's Solo diptych, q.v. under Fiction.

Van Peeble's Solo, a killer cyborg assassin, develops a conscience in conflict with his programming and goes AWOL. He finds refuge in a South American village and is hunted by Sadler's Col. Madden who leads a high-tech. military unit. Van Peeble's describes his character as "very fluid, not like a Robocop kind of guy. He could damn near pass for human[,] but he's still got certain qualities—something different about him." Described in prod. by Sean Strebin and Steve Biodrowski, Cinefantastique 28.2 (Sept. 1996): 38-39, source for this citation, and quoted. See also IMDb citation and Wikipedia entry for the film, which has the source novel Mason's Weapon.

Not to be confused with the 2018 SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY.