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That was an excellent one.

Memorable, crazy movie

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The Ultimate Warrior The key to repopulating after an apocalypse is making Viagra for radioactive genitals.Unfortunately, the seeds the survivors in this sci-fi film are concerned with are ones you sow.By propagating a seed resistant to the plagued that wiped out humanity, a band of intellectuals living in a walled-off section of NYC have cultivated the poisoned soil.But with marauders threatening their peaceful existence, clan leader Baron (Max von Sydow) has no choice but to dispatch his pregnant daughter (Joanna Miles) and her bodyguard (Yul Brynner) beyond the wall in order to persevere life.A precursor to the dystopian craze of today, The Ultimate Warrior set the visual standard for ruined cities, as well as the struggle to survive in a wasteland.While the fisticuffs are tame, the unruly characters are not - making for an exciting escapade.Furthermore, the first crop you should grow in a lawless land is hemp.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

From Robert Clouse, the director who brought us the absolutely classic, Enter The Dragon, comes this post apocalyptic tale starring none other than Yul Bryner. Shall we dance indeed! Wow, sounds good so far eh? Well, as it happens it is rather and benefits immeasurably by its fine casting, especially the always superb Max Von Sydow, here playing a character called the Baron, leader of a commune of survivors trying desperately to survive in this harsh new world. As was later to become a staple plot in the plethora of post apocalyptic flicks which were to follow this in the early 1980's, not only is there unease and warring factions within the commune itself, but outside even more hostile groups are forever plotting to wipe out their neighbours. In this instance, a particularly nasty group headed by a chap called Carrot(!) (played by perennial bad boy, William Smith) are the antagonists. As a result of the mounting pressure, The Baron hires lone warrior Carson (Bryner) to help protect them and in a more secretive plan, to have him lead his daughter and her horticultural expert husband to safety, far away from the ravages of the doomed city.Whilst best remembered for his action output, Clouse was actually a very gifted visual director and here manages to convey some particularly effective scenes of desolation (the visuals over the opening credits carry an especial air of sorrow and emptiness, depicting the end of civilisation).Action wise, despite his mature years at the time of filming, Bryner is on fine form here as he demonstrates during the fair number of fight scenes contained within. Special mention to, for the rather shocking decision he makes during his final confrontation with his nemesis, a sure illustration of the old motto, 'Desperate times call for desperate measures.'Overall, whilst not nearly as exhilarating as some of Clouse's other works such as Enter The Dragon and Black Belt Jones, this is a fascinating film that deserves far more recognition that it presently owns. For fans of the whole post nuke/post apocalyptic genre which was so huge following Mad Max, this is well worth checking out.

New York in the year of 2012 is a dangerously decayed environment that has been divided into communities who continuously fight, as the earth has been destroyed by a plague and sources of food is very limited. A small peaceful society living in a small compound are led by "The Baron" and seek that of a warrior to protect them from the street people led the malicious Carrot. The mysterious fighter Carson accepts Baron's offer. Although Carson learns that Baron actually has a plan to get his daughter, his son-law and their unborn child to an island off the coast of North Carolina. He would need Carson's help to get them there. Where did this come from? I knew nothing off it when discovering it at video shop getting rid of their VHS'. Hard to say why this is one unsung flick, as there is some potent names involved and for most part its cleverly constructed. A thoughtfully desperate Sci-fi / action stint that actually throws up some genuine social commentary without any sort forced impression. Strangely enough, you could possibly claim this to be an influential benchmark in the post-apocalyptic sub-genre. This for goes "Mad Max" and the trend that followed it. There's no doubt the 70s were a flourishing time for innovative films. The director Robert Clouse would be known for Bruce Lee's film "Enter the Dragon (1973)" and some others like "The Pack (1977)" and "The Rats (1975)". Clouse manages to give it a hard-edge and the gritty, grubby post-holocaust setting demonstrates something rather eerie and raw. The violence is brutally intense and truly grim. This only makes this hasty plight more authentic with the nature of the situation turning people to think of only themselves and become something they might oppose. It shows there's common ground despite the walls separating the two sides. For some they might find the story to never really get going until the final half, but there are some interestingly credible ideas (like the horticultural aspect of a immune plant) covered in the chatty opening half and a pinch of wit is a nice welcome. Clouse does a frank and accessible job with what his got to shape here. Fight sequences are swiftly exciting (the final super-charged climax is a hoot), even if there's not much flair and the workable stunts go hand-to-hand. There's some imagery captured with a touch of style, but it mostly done with a lot dirt and grit. Organizing the film's rhythm is Gil Melle's dry and spicy experimental music score, which works a treat alongside Gerald Hirshfeld's reliably on-the-move and penetrating photography. Making up a fine cast is Yul Brynner, Max Von Sydow, William Smith and Joanne Miles. A picture-perfect Brynner emit's a gloriously humane, but also a deadly vibe with his warrior for hire, Carson. His dry temperament was surely tailor made for the part. Von Sydow adds the class to his character, the Baron and character actor Smith milks out a fun performance as the sadistically husky voiced swine Carrot. Miles is also good in her sympathetic turn as the baron's daughter Melinda. It might look like a b-grade action movie and be spotty in parts, but there are some inspired brushes and fine performances to say it's worth the effort.

2012 A.D.: Plague epidemics have wiped out a fair share of the populace and reduced society to a hellish, feral, survival of the fittest kill or be killed barbaric shambles with lethal hordes of Cro-Magnon thugs running amuck on the streets of every major city. In New York a peaceful, barricaded compound led by the wise, kindly Baron (a beautifully understated Max Von Sydow), assisted by the resourceful Cal the Gardener (a marvelously mellow Richard Kelton) and his feisty pregnant daughter Melinda (excellently played by Joanna Miles), try to rebuild civilization by creating seeds that are resistant to the various diseases that have ravaged the planet and turned it into a barren wasteland. However, the compound's fragile security is steadily eroding to the point were it can be overrun by the calculatingly malevolent Carrot (the always fantastic William Smith at his tremendously terrifying, hard-hearted best) and his gang of grimy, vicious brutes. Enlisting the aid of laconic, resilient, stoical, but essentially humane mercenary and street fighter supreme Carson (a terrific Yul Brynner in a very ideal piece of casting), the Baron has Carson with the seeds and Melinda in tow make a desperate effort to escape by traveling through the dusty, cobwebby, rat-infested subway tunnels to safety.Unarguably the unjustly overlooked and undervalued prototype for the many 80's post-apocalyptic sci-fi/action features that followed in its influential wake ("Escape from New York" in particular immediately springs to mind; ditto the "Mad Max" films), "The Ultimate Warrior" ranks as a potently grungy, gut-kickingly savage and visceral dilly. Directed in blunt, unflashy, right-to-the-point fashion by Robert ("Enter the Dragon") Clouse (who also wrote the gritty, tough-minded script), expertly pushed along by Gerald Hirshfeld's active, agile, polished cinematography and Gil Melle's earthy, primal, slightly dissonant and highly percussive score, this strong poke-your-eyes-out-with-a-rusty-nail fierce flick really delivers the rousing back-against-the-wall hand-to-hand combat action: brawny, fast on his feet, fluidly whipping hither and tither supersharp knife wielder Brynner makes bloody hash out of the scumbags with his deadly blade in a series of first-rate ferocious confrontations, concluding with a tense, harrowing and extremely exciting subterranean face-off with Smith and his greasy flunkies which finally comes down to an incredible white knuckle anything-goes fight between Smith and Brynner.Moreover, Brynner makes the most of his part, adding some surprising sensitivity to his rugged character while Smith hits an all-time nasty peak as the mean, but bright and charismatic villain. The sober, uncompromisingly harsh tone, done with no traces whatsoever of silly camp humor, but several welcome moments of genuine warmth and compassion and Clouse's stark, unflinchingly grim depiction of the ugly, upsetting savagery which permeates the post-holocaust milieu (for instance, Smith's gang captures a baby from Sydow's compound and use it as bait to lure Brynner outside), give the film an extra stinging edge. These two significant factors furthermore bring a certain bleak conviction to the frighteningly violent and totally amoral world shown herein, thereby elevating "The Ultimate Warrior" to the respectable status of a truly outstanding and unheralded winner.