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Rating: 5.5 stars

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Seen on: 11/26/2011, 03/16/2011

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Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Directed by John Milius

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Most recently watched by Javitron, sensoria, sensoria

Overview

A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.

Rated R | Length 129 minutes

Actors

Arnold Schwarzenegger | Max von Sydow | Gerry Lopez | Jack Taylor | Mako | James Earl Jones | Sven-Ole Thorsen | Ron Cobb | Luis Barboo | Franco Columbu | Sandahl Bergman | Sab Shimono | William Smith | Cassandra Gava | Ben Davidson | Valérie Quennessen | Nadiuska | Pilar Alcón | Jorge Sanz | Andrea Guzon | Celia Milius | Leslie Foldvary

Viewing Notes

I wanted to like this movie more than I did. It’s not that I expected great things from it; but I was hoping for a coherent tale evocative of the world of Conan so well defined in Robert E. Howard’s books, and even in the various Conan comics.

The movie starts off well enough. I really enjoyed the first quarter of the film, which deals with young Conan and sets up the back story for the rest of the movie.

Most of the rest of the movie just feels like a series of set piece scenes tacked together only loosely. I don’t know how to describe it, other than to say the movie wasn’t compact enough to really drive the plot; nor was it deep enough to evoke the world of Conan. Both would have been great, but I’d have settled for either/or. Instead I got neither/nor.

Not a terrible movie, just not very satisfying either.

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