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Captivating movie !

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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.

Still an unchallenged masterpiece of the Sword & Sorcerer fantasy genre. Sadly, there are not much movies of quality in this genre. The second movie, Conan the Destroyer, with Arnie aka Conan is also a good one. Trash and entertainment at its best. Both movies I still re-watch from time to time. The remake of 2011 is not bad but sadly Jason Momoa is no Schwarzenegger. Robert E. Howard wrote a lot of stories of Conan's adventures and I still got hope that I will have one day the chance to watch new, well-done movies of the Hyperborian cosmos. Maybe someday a production company will clone Mr. Schwarzenegger for that purpose. Hope dies last - ;)

So the film really surprised me. Large parts of the film come out completely without words one understands nevertheless all the Derby is not really great but very fast to savvy and very linear. The fights are really good that is a really classy male film but nevertheless all the women that can be found in there so also strike all SWJ and the the claim there are no strong women characters should necessarily look at this movie here and listen to the music the best I have ever heard in my life.

This is quite frankly, one of the most underrated films of all time. John Milius' (writer of apocalypse Now, Dirty harry's famous Magnum speech, and Quints famous Indianapolis monologue from Jaws) film evokes an earlier age with the passion, poetry and fury of Kurosawa, John Ford and Eisenstein. The score on the other hand, is hands down one of Hollywoods' greatest, certainly on par with Rosza and Steiner of old. Oft dismissed as a "dumb 80s Arnie flick", the film both romantically and brutally recreates an earlier age of mankind, whereby life was cheap and only the fittest could survive. As a student of ancient history, I was struck the more I studied at just how accurate this film had been in recreating the life of the people whom lived in history. They believed in ancient religions of snakes and mountain gods, they fought brutal wars of raiding, pillaging and genocide, and suffered from the same, they feared sorcerers and magicians and travelled in a world of immense cultural diversity prior to the rise of empires. This is the world as ancient man saw it. Combine this with the narrative philosophy and themes: Neitzsche, the heros journey, Pulp and you have a masterpiece. Its a pity Milius wasn't brought back for the sequel and were robbed of another gem. This is the very definition of a film that grows on you.

Watched it when I was four and just watched again at 40.This is a solid movie, the fight, the love, the companionship is real in this movie.One of Arnold's best, It's has aged well The score is outstanding today.Great score!Final fight scene is legendary.