r-c-s Review of Hearts and Armour

Hearts and Armour (1983)

decent Italian stitched together mid-carder

[5/10 · 22 March 2007]

This movie is a decent, although stitched together mid-carder. The cast ought to tell it all. By an Italian perspective we have a couple soap opera junkies ( Ron Moss & Tanya Roberts ) and back then the Italian population loved soap operas, a then emerging cutie ( Barbara de Rossi ) with a terrible accent more worth of a lady trying to sell you smuggled cigarettes in southern Italy then else, plus some other mr. no-name. Some pompous shots, like Christian knights talking to their king, have been surpassed or equalled by TV ads of a liquor, go figure. It is not a terrible movie, but it is not what one might suppose it is, either. It is the typical early 80s Italian low budget "hommage" movie, that is a movie that "borrows" heavily from other movies, whether plot, devices or settings. Light years from EL CID and the cryptic and dark Excalibur. Character development is close to zero; acting is rather cardboard; action is good and scenes too.