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Conan The Barbarian - Movie Review
Updated On: 26 August, 2011 07:10 PM IST | | Suprateek Chatterjee
Conan The Barbarian is a film with a one-point agenda - about a muscle-bound hero who lives, loves and slays. It will most likely only be enjoyed by its core target audience, especially those who aren't unreasonably rabid fans of the (former) Governor of California
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Conan The Barbarian
A; Action
Dir: Marcus Nispel
Cast: Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan, Leo Howard, Ron Perlman
** (out of 5)
I remember watching the original Conan The Barbarian movie when I was in school,u00a0 at the peak of my Arnold Schwarzenegger obsession. It featured bad acting, badu00a0 camerawork, bad storytelling, unintentionally hilarious dialogue and tons of misogyny. My friends and I lapped it all up simply because, well, it was an Arnie movie. And because there was sword-fighting. And blood. Lots of blood.
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The new Conan The Barbarian, starring a leaner Jason Momoa in lieu of Arnie, has a similar target audience - one that is willing to sit through a movie with gaps in logic and plot holes big enough to drive trucks through for their fix of bloody violence and stomach-churning gore. This movie has a lot of that, ranging from multiple decapitations to medieval methods of torture. There are scenes that could make even the most hardened of viewers flinch, while the faint of heart should simply avoid this movie.
That said, Conan The Barbarian possesses fairly enjoyable B-movie chops, provided you aren't fussy about minor details such as acting, direction, plot and logic. The story begins with a young Conan (Howard), a young savage boy born to a mother who is killed on the battlefield and father Corin (Perlman) who keeps challenging him physically and tell him he isn't yet "ready" (thereby setting up a triumphant scene in the climax where the boy will prove the father wrong). When future evil warlord Khalar Zym (Lang) tortures and subsequently kills his father Corin, Conan swears revenge and grows up to be a handsome muscular warrior, roaming the lands while living by the sword.
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