‘Solomon Kane’ weighed down by its exceedingly morose and self-serious tone
Solomon Kane Directed by Michael J. Bassett Written by Michael J. Bassett, Robert E. Howard France/Czech Republic/UK, 2009 Solomon Kane is lugubrious, inclement, drab, dour, dark, violent and macabre. The eponymous character, played by James Purefoy, epitomizes all of the above and is very much the same. Having had its world premiere at the Toronto …