Watch Outlaw of Gor For Free

A lot of fun.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I was shocked to find that this was made in 1989; it felt more like an early '80s Conan rip-off. It also probably means that Jack Palance went straight from the mega-bucks production of Batman to slumming it in a desert with a bunch of Italian non-actors.The oddest thing about this movie is that it has no hero. Yes, Cabot may have the camera pointed at him most of the time, but he does absolutely nothing to affect the story's outcome. He doesn't kill the evil priest (someone else does that), he doesn't turn the people against the evil queen (someone else does that - with just one line of dialogue! These people are easily swayed) and he doesn't even kill the evil queen (someone else does that too). He might as well not have been there. For about the last 20 minutes, he just gets repeatedly beaten and whipped: it would be The Passion Of The Cabot, if anything approaching "passion" were in the actor's repertoire.Cabot's wormy friend is also one of the most annoying and punchable "comic" sidekicks in movie history.

Outlaw's plot comes straight out of the Sword and Sorcerer Handbook – an evil queen kills her husband and blames it on the innocent hero, Tarl Cabot (Urbano Barberini), so she might take control of the thrown. Cabot spends the rest of the movie trying to clear his name, undo the queen's evils, and return to his true love.Overall, Outlaw is one of the poorer examples of the Conan "inspired" rip-off I've seen recently. While the movie has a number of weaknesses, the most glaring is Barberini in the lead role. He makes for one of the most nondescript, unexciting heroes I've seen. He's completely unconvincing. And what's the point in announcing quite proudly in the movie that our hero is a vegetarian? Was Outlaw funded by PETA? What's the point in adding that to the movie? It takes what is an otherwise namby-pamby hero and makes him even more so. Between the emasculated Tarl Cabot, scene after scene of a midget's hinder, an annoying side-kick named Watney, and an embarrassed looking Jack Palance wearing one of the goofiest looking hats imaginable, you've got the recipe for one bad movie.Yet I haven't rated Outlaw as low as I could have. Why? Well, I have a weakness for this kind of movie. I tend to enjoy most sword and sorcerer type movies, even the bad ones. That, plus some of the outfits worn by Donna Denton, seems to be enough to warrant a point or two.

Ok, the movie on it's own is pretty horrible, but when you had mike, servo and crow to the mix, it becomes the funniest movie ever made. The whole Jack Palance bit just got me going. However, if you're just watching the movie, you can surely appreciate the cheese that this movie presents. As it is commonly said, there are bad movies, and there are movies so bad they're good. This falls into the latter category. Much like Battlefield Earth.

I found the story concept to have some potential but the film was poorly made. Tarl's sidekicks could have been different and better (and less irritating). The props could have been improved at lot more. As for the lead actor, Urbano Barberini looks right for the role but his acting skills were rather bad.