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Sadly Over-hyped

An Exercise In Nonsense

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First, while I only gave this film 5 stars, it really isn't bad. Apart from an instance where a horse made a sound I considered unlikely under the circumstances based on my experience with them, my beef is that this movie is so much less than what it could have been. It could have been an epic, but they missed the bar. It could also have made a good patriotic film such as the Russian film 1612, had they shifted the focus a little more on the Milanese and slightly less on Barbarossa, filmed it in Italian (It is an Italian film, after all.), and livened it up a tad.Bottom line, if you're a fan of this sort of movie as I am, watch it. It isn't that great, but I do not regret the time spent watching it. It just could have been better. If, on the other hand, you feel no attraction to films of this type, and are merely looking for a good movie to burn some time on, you might want to look elsewhere. Not to scare you off, though. Who knows, you might enjoy it.If you like this movie, try 1612. That is the movie I was most reminded of watching this one.

This movie is a very elaborate joke, with a incredible punchline, but it take 2 hours to get there...2 hours you will never get back.So yes there will be spoiler...Two hours where nothing really happen except a siege, a siege where Rutger Hauer, as the main villain of the movie, explain to us what a siege is (What? We are going to wait for them to get tired and starved? How brilliant!)...well thanks for all the info O mighty King Obvious the first.After some treason, some tribulations of a guy who like to say to everyone that he as founded the COMPANY OF DEATH and that he is ready to die for FREEDOM. There is also two sisters (I think) one of them as been strike by lightning, witch make her ''special'', and for god know what reason she is the love interest of the movie.Then after many boring speech where they remind all who can hear that they are the COMPANY OF DEATH they go fight the army of the cruel king...for FREEDOM. Then the joke is on you, after an hilariously bad battle scene, it is revealed that the king got beaten...OFF SCREEN! Yes the main antagonist of the movie die, disappear, got defeated, you really stop to care once you get there, off screen! And then they found the love interest in an Armour... in the middle of the battlefield...for no good reason. Why his she there? how she got there?...we will never know. Then the movie remind us how accurate historically he is. And then the credits. And then you realizing that that movie was just one weird joke.I don't recommend it, unless you have a very weird sense of humour....

There was a lot of the same horse sound effects being used for every single horse scene (of which there are many). The end battle scene was OK. It just took 120 minutes to get there. So whilst waiting for the big money scene, you are forced to sit through a boring, impossible romance, some boring politics, some peasants trying to take on the bad guys, and one peasant fellow who was probably the most useless character in the entire movie.Not one of the characters was engaging. The movie spends a lot of time with a feral witch female character who looks like she was born in the jungle. She spends a lot of time crawling around on all fours like a rabid mutt, sniffing the ground and her boyfriend, and peering at the camera through dirty oily curtains of hair. She also spends the majority of time wearing a potato sack for clothes. What exactly did the BF see in this dirty little rat creature again? Oh, and she had magical powers.After the prerequisite love scene (interspersed with the death of her sister, how utterly original) you'd think things would start moving. Nope, it takes another hour. The end is an impossible-to-read narration of events that happens, but at least our hero lives happily ever after with his feral wife and they have lots of children together.This looked like it was made for TV. The production values were strangely cheap looking and the same locations were used to portray totally different places. How utterly boring.1/10

Do yourself a favor and do not watch this film.I saw the box-art and thought it looked like a fun, violence filled, medieval romp about a subject I knew nothing about.Even though I know next to nothing about this history, I can tell this film is stupidly inaccurate and on top of this it's awful too. I wanted the hero to die from the moment I saw him, he can't act and is just irritating from first to last.Even the violence was completely unsatisfying.. There is no redeeming feature - do not waste your time on this. Go read the wiki page on barbarossa instead.. far more entertaining, you will learn stuff and have at least an hour more of your life.I hope Mr Hauer got paid a total fortune for his bit part in this film, he was the only decent thing in it.