Conan the Destroyer (1984)
3/10
Starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Grace Jones
Wilt Chamberlain
Mako
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Why was Conan the Barbarian met with mixed
reviews and Conan the Destroyer met with negative reviews?
Well, the screenwriters decided
to water down the violence which I bet was due to the complains that there was
more than enough in the first. They went one step lower with the most annoying
supporting cast they could find.
You do not want to see the
character portrayal of the thief in this movie, he was such a bad actor I do
not believe nobody noticed the crappy acting before pushing this movie out to
be seen.
The movie focused on Conan on
another adventure, this time to help Queen Taramis fulfill a quest which involves
her daughter, she promised to help unite him with is love Valeria by bring her
back to life.
Conan was to escort the daughter Jehnna
and her guardian to Bombaata to recover the horn of the god Dagoth. Along with
Conan was his companion a thief, Zula (Grace Jones) a villain who he rescued
from being killed. Knowing of the magical journey ahead of them, he sorts out
his wizard friend from Conan the Barbarian, Akiro.
Together the
team went ahead to recover the horn, regardless of the warning given to them
that the raising of Dagoth will signify the end of the world.
The movie also had Grace Jones who
decided that her place in this movie will be one that is just screaming all
over the place.
The writers wanted to make Conan
look like he had grown over the years and perfected his skills, but all of that
just made Conan’s ability to survive more unbelievable and unrealistic.
Leave it to Hollywood to see a
movie make more money than they expected and immediately they decide to turn
the movie into a trilogy and Conan fell into that mix.
The plan was to make Conan the
Destroyer and Conan the Conqueror, but as we all know instead of Conan the
Conqueror we had Kull the Conqueror. The reason was because Arnold’s contract
had expired on making Conan films and he didn’t renew it as he decided to stay
away from swords and magic.
Kevin Sorbo was cast to play Kull
which was based on another Robert E. Howard character as Kevin refused to play
Conan.
Kull was totally crap and was
both a financial and critical disappointment.
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