There's obviously a reason why this TV movie did not get picked up for a series or additional TV movies. It is just wretched and mostly unwatchable, although there are a few good action sequences and some good sets, masks and costumes. But other than that, it's an absolute bore with a charisma free leading man (Lane Caudell) and a cumbersome storyline involving the revenge that Caudell seeks after his father (George Kennedy, looking embarrassed in his Pippi Longstocking like wig) is murdered.
A Xena Warrior Princess like character has to wear an ugly punk rocker style hair do that is the biggest don't ever, making Barbara Stanwyck wig in "Double Indemnity" look classy. The plot line and various twists are so convoluted that it's difficult to follow everything going on, and I was too bored to go back and watch the scenes I didn't quite understand over again.
This is basically a Gladiator movie filmed in English so you don't have to deal with the bad dubbing, just the bad acting, filled with silly looking monsters and cliched, uninteresting characters. The Conan movies are much better than this, and that's not saying much. One of the big TV fiasco songs of the 1980's that requires patience I could not muster to get through.
A Xena Warrior Princess like character has to wear an ugly punk rocker style hair do that is the biggest don't ever, making Barbara Stanwyck wig in "Double Indemnity" look classy. The plot line and various twists are so convoluted that it's difficult to follow everything going on, and I was too bored to go back and watch the scenes I didn't quite understand over again.
This is basically a Gladiator movie filmed in English so you don't have to deal with the bad dubbing, just the bad acting, filled with silly looking monsters and cliched, uninteresting characters. The Conan movies are much better than this, and that's not saying much. One of the big TV fiasco songs of the 1980's that requires patience I could not muster to get through.