The film was shot entirely in Puerto Vallarta. įollowing his work directing Panther, Mario Van Peebles was looking for a project that would provide him a complex character to play and felt Solo with its depictions of indigenous people under the threat of superior technology provided opportunity to do so.

William Sadler as Colonel Frank Madden / Improved SoloĪt one point, producer Lawrence Gordon had initially purchased the rights to Weapon along with options on other books penned by Robert Mason.

After the temple the two androids fought in collapses, causing the military to pull out believing both units are destroyed and unrecoverable, Miguel mourns Solo believing he was destroyed by cave-in, but Miguel starts to hear Solo, laughing, as he knows he has earned his freedom. Solo rescues the villagers and destroys the MkII android, using his acquired bluffing skills. The MkII kills Madden and proceeds to hunt down Solo. Suddenly a helicopter delivers a more powerful version of the android, which is armed with a multi-barreled gun and has Madden's face. Solo is able to fight Madden in hand-to-hand combat and non-fatally break his spine. Rio is betrayed by Madden, who tries to kill Solo with an automatic grenade launcher. Having occupied the village, the militiamen and black ops team attempt to kill Solo, but he manages to kill them.

Bill Stewart, Solo's creator, as a lure, leaving the man mortally wounded but Solo survives. The highly sadistic black ops leader, Colonel Frank Madden, who has an intense hatred for Solo as he sees Solo renders the Black Ops members like him out of job, brings in Dr. A black ops team is sent to recover or destroy Solo, while they ally with Rio. Solo helps the villagers drive off local Warlord Rio and his small army, but the combat is detected by a military satellite. There he learns to 'bluff' from a child that befriends him, Miguel. He joins a small village community that is under constant threat from guerilla attackers, and he protects them in exchange for use of their electric generator (they previously used it to power a television).

His main energy supply was damaged during the first mission, forcing him to switch to his much less powerful secondary power. His developers try to take him back for deprogramming, but he flees to the jungle in a helicopter.

He is sent to Central America by General Haynes to battle guerrilla insurgents, but a flaw develops in his programming and he develops a conscience and compassion. Solo is an android designed as a military killing machine. The film was based on the 1989 novel Weapon by Robert Mason, and was adapted into a screenplay by David L. Solo is a 1996 science fiction action film directed by Norberto Barba, and starring Mario Van Peebles, William Sadler, Adrien Brody, Barry Corbin and Demián Bichir.

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