Conan the Barbarian
Synopsis:
The movie started of with a narration about a powerful mask, Mask of Acheron created by a group of sorcerers and made from the skulls of dead kings. The mask is suppose to give power to the wearer after sacrificed their pure blood daughters to the dark gods. However the wearer was defeated by the barbarian clans lead by Corin (Ron Perlman) and the mask was broken into several pieces and kept by different clans across the continental. Then, the movie panned to Corin and his young son, Conan who's mother was killed during some clashes. A new warlord, Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang) decided to conquered the world using the mask, had band together a massive army to search for the missing pieces. Together with her sorcery daughter, Marique, they discover the last missing pieces is with Corin. Thus, they attacked the village and in the process, Corin was killed but Conan was spared but vows to revenge his father's death. After many years, the now grown-up Conan (Jason Momoa) finally found a break when he saw one of Khalar Zym lieutenants and decided to interrogate him. This lead to Conan going on an adventure where he defeat Khalar Zym's lieutenants one by one and finally edging closer to Khalar Zym himself where the final battle between Conan and Khalar Zym takes place.
Review:
I finally decide to watch this Conan the Barbarian after hesitate for a long time simply because Conan portray by Arnold Schwarzenegger was the best, with enough mystical and barbarian outlook. I wasn't so sure about this movie but was quite happy that Jason Momoa portraying Conan simply because i cannot find any other actor with physical build and such savagery looks other than Momoa. Momoa was excellent in "Games of Thrones" tv series where he portray Khal Drogo, an almost Conan like character. So what would go wrong, right? After watch this movie, i wasn't quite sure if Momoa was indeed the perfect choice or perhaps, the director is unable to bring Momoa character out to portray Conan. In this movie, Momoa looks like he wasn't taking himself seriously and would always crack one or two line of jokes, and had a quirky smile afterwards. Conan isn't suppose to be that. Conan is suppose to be that savage, barbarian hulk looking and without emotion, without pity and certainly without humor like what has been portray by Schwarzenegger. If Momoa's silent but deadly Khal Drogo character was to incorporate to be Conan, then we would have a winner movie but instead we have a Ronan Dex from Stargate Atlantis as Conan. Aside from that, i found the movie quite entertaining and having non-stop action, brainless and lacking good story and script but non-the-less quite an entertaining action movie. It wasn't as bad as some of the review i saw, as it was passable and the visual effects was also not bad at all. The movie flows quite quickly with action after action, with Conan finding and defeating Khalar Zym's lieutenant like in a video game. Alas, when comes to the big boss, it was quite a disappointment. If you can minus out the main character's nonsensical action and brainless bash movie, then this update Conan the Barbarian would be a good popcorn choice.
Verdict:
I give this a 1.5 star out of 5, only because i found Rose McGowan's character as the sorcery, Marique to be quite a colorful character.
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