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Red Sonja
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by MGM (Video & DVD)
Sales Rank: 39920
Price: $9.94
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Brigitte Nielsen, as <I>Conan</I> creator Robert E. Howard's female warrior Red Sonja, gets an assist from Arnold Schwarzenegger in this enjoyably campy, Italian-lensed sword & sorcery adventure. Nielsen's thespian skills may be a bit stiff, but she certainly fills out the physical demands of the role, which asks her to look impressive with a sword as she avenges the death of her priestess sister and the theft of a sacred orb by an evil queen (Sandahl Bergman, also from the '82 theatrical <I>Conan</I> and a match for Nielsen's acting ability). Schwarzenegger (<I>not</I> playing Howard's barbarian king) lends some star power in a supporting role as a warrior assisting Sonja, and if the film stumbles in the acting, scripting, and special-effects departments, Richard Fleischer's direction and cinematography Giuseppe Rotunno are appropriately action-heavy and comic-book colorful (Fleischer also directed <I>Conan the Destroyer</I> and <I>The Vikings</I>); Ennio Morricone's bombastic score is another plus. <I>--Paul Gaita</I>
Viewer Reviews
Sadly, Red Sonja is the poster child for everything that is wrong with Hollywood attempts to create films based off of fantasy themes. Even with 80's action-star Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, and Sandahl Bergman to front this movie, Red Sonja is a haphazard and mostly uninspired affair.
To me, the best thing about this film is the score by Ennio Morricone. The worst thing about this film is that it goes on and on and on and doesn't seem to want to end.
The acting, of course, is terrible. Let's not even talk about the screenplay! But even with all this baggage, I do find the film watchable and even likeable at times for its over-the-top 80's cheesiness.
Now that it's official that Hollywood is remaking Red Sonja, it's worth it to watch this film again just to remind ourselves that when a great fantasy film like The Lord of the Rings is bestowed upoon us, we should cherish every minute of it because good fantasy films, let alone of the calibur of "Rings", are very rarely ever made.
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