watching Solomon Kane at the moment, only a small chunk in and I am enjoying it quite a bit, imo great production value and they have pulled off the 'artsy' shots without looking film school-y.
When you think about it, it is a rather lower-budget movie made by a Czech Republic company with mostly British actors based on a 90 year old American character, it kind of sounds like disaster waiting to happen.
While Act 1 is a bit long and slow at times and raises a lot of questions without clear answers (the biggest in the first 10 minutes of the film), Act 2 is pretty strong and well done all around, though while it and Act 3 get a bit more "Lord of the Rings", "epic-y" that a Solomon Kaine story probably should, Act 3 is very short, climatic and pretty amazing and pays you off for watching everything up to that point.
I have to say I was rather impressed, as the movie deliberately kept things from you. Again but raising some questions early on, giving you hints around 2/3-3/4 through the film but was sure to explain it all by the end. The final climatic scenes were just terrific as well.
Solomon Kane was a good sign that people outside of Hollywood can make good movies, that is if you still believe movies are a storytelling medium rather than a wankfest of violence, tits and special effects.
(Though I will admit, this movie could have used a few extra bucks to shore up some of its special effect scenes, two or three were just kind of weak due to them doing them digital. If they had more cash they could have done them practical and it would have looked better. Didn't hurt the film as much as kind of make me flinch a bit.)