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- A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage's dangerous future when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer in conquering a land.
- If you had asked me in 1982, I would have probably told you that The Sword and the Sorcerer was one of the greatest achievements in motion picture history. I loved it! Everything about it was just so cool. Re-watching it this many years later, I still enjoyed the movie, but not as much as I once did. <br/><br/>First off, this has to be one of the better fantasy movies made in an attempt to cash in on the success of Conan. It actually has a budget, mostly good acting, reasonably entertaining special effects, and some nice tension and atmosphere. So many of the Conan cash-ins were made with little or no budget - and it usually showed. Some were fun, but they looked cheap. The acting here is a step above the normal early 80s fantasy movie. I always enjoy Richard Lynch and his Cromwell is perfectly nasty. Another big plus for The Sword and the Sorcerer is the character Xusia. His resurrection and later return are two of the film's highlights. Nicely done and creepy to boot.<br/><br/>But as I said, I didn't find the movie quite as enjoyable as I once did. My main problem is Lee Horsley as Talon. He's a decent enough actor, but here, he seems horribly miscast. He's just not right for the role. And then there's that sword. I loved it 1982, but now I see how ridiculous it looks. A real sword like that one would weigh a ton and be unusable. Very unwieldy looking thing. <br/><br/>Still, it's definitely a fun movie and worth at least a 6/10 if you like early 80s fantasy movies.
- If I were to say the name "Albert Pyun", chances are pretty good you'd draw a blank. "Cyborg"? Uhh, isn't that a Van Damme film or something? Yeah. "Radioactive Dreams"? Cult movie from the 80s maybe? Sci-fi? Yup. Same guy as this Conan ripoff? Yup. And over 40 other films in less than 30 years. Man's been prolific - if not particularly good.<br/><br/>Well, he started off on the right foot, even if this low-budget affair is cheesy, goofy, and most definitely made to cash in on the Schwarzenegger film's success; or presumptive success might be a better way to put it, as it was actually released a few weeks before John Milius' bigger-budgeted, better-marketed film. In fact (and this blew my mind) it had almost exactly the same box office gross, at least in the USA, as the film that made Arnie a star - $40 million or so, a substantial amount for a low-budget indie in those days.<br/><br/>Why the film hasn't stayed in the public consciousness and why the promised sequel (mentioned in the end credits crawl) had to wait until this year, remains a mystery to me after re-watching the film last week. The plot is pretty basic and really rather inconsequential: evil Cromwell takes over the peaceful kingdom of Ehdan with the help of monstrous undead sorcerer Xusia, killing the king and his family but missing young Talon, he of the three-bladed sword, who will eventually grow into strapping he-man Lee Horsley and come back for revenge, along the way saving gorgeous Princess Alana (Kathleen Beller) and her brother Micah, who believes himself to be the rightful heir in the absence of Talon. There's lots of fairly mediocre and unconvincing swordplay, plenty of shots of the half-naked Horsley for the ladies and the scantily-clad Beller and other nubile vixens for the guys, rather dreamy overlit photography that helps camouflage the overall cheapness of the sets and costumes, and a musical score that's rousing if rather shameless in its ripping off of 40s swashbuckler stuff and even for a moment "Gone With the Wind".<br/><br/>But what makes the film work is the sense of humor it has about itself, and Horsley's charisma. How can anybody take the triple-sword (which fires two of its blades like crossbow bolts) seriously, or do anything but laugh when Talon is crucified on a big wooden X at a wedding celebration but pulls the spikes out of his hands (mostly in slow-mo of course) and then goes on to start chopping up the bad guys as if nothing happened? The film has an energy and verve that for me more than makes up for some really ludicrous lapses in plotting near the end, and I for one wish that a sequel starring Horsley had been made. This is Pyun's highest-rated film on the IMDb and judging from what else I've seen and the descriptions and comments on a few others, probably deserves to be. Too bad - it's far from a great film, but it's sad that the director has become such a joke ever since.
- Editor Marshall Harvey stitches the messy pieces together with considerable panache.
- Because he only wanted revenge for his mother and fathers murder, also he wanted to be a free spirit and have many adventures which would not have been possible if he became the king and stayed in one place a5c7b9f00b
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