Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian

Rating 6 out of 10

You don't go to see Conan for complicated plot lines or mushy love stories.  This is pure testosterone from start to finish.  Slice, dice and repeat.  A movie like this rests on the muscular shoulders of it's star.  Especially when it's a remake of a movie Arnold Schwarzenegger made famous back in the 80's.  This is where I think this movie falls short.   Conan is played by Jason Momoa.  I see alot of movies and tv and I had never hear of him.  He handles the fight scenes well enough but not quite enough beefcake for a role like this.  I'm thinking someone like the Rock would have been a better choice.


That said this movie has plenty of action and fighting for any action movie fan.  It starts when Conan is a small boy.  Bad guys roll into town and do evil things to his dad (the only name in the movie, Ron Perlman- from Hellboy) and his people.  Conan vows revenge and we soon find out you don't want Conan mad at you.  Only ten bad guys?  This won't take long.  No guns back then so lots of limbs get chopped and body parts sliced.  If you don't like blood this movie is not for you.

There has to be a babe to be saved and that babe is the lovely Rachel Nichols. She was in the tv show Alias and was in the 2009 movie GI Joe.

I would say this movie delivers what is expected and no more.  I'm not sorry I paid to see it but probably would not recommend it either.  Good rental.