if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Red Sonja is an awful film in absolutely every way. Though due to amusement, doesn't fall into the worst films of all time category.Paul Smith as Falcon really shone through. In the battle between Red Sonja and Queen Gedren, I was thinking "don't look at the wizard, don't look at the wizard, do not.. look at the wizard" and she looked at the wizard.

One of the great '80s cheeseball classics. A young red-haired woman named Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen) is the only survivor of a raid on her village by the evil Queen Gedren (Sandahl Bergman). She becomes a swordfighter and sets out to get revenge on Gedren. Oh and she swears she will not make love to any man unless he can best her in combat. Enter Arnold Schwarzenegger. Literally.Amazonian Brigitte Nielsen's performance is laughably wooden. She is attractive, though, and does well in the fight scenes. Arnold is top-billed due to his being a bigger star than Nielsen but he also does a better job acting. Not saying he would win any awards for this role but he at least gives the part some humor. Brigitte barely manages to speak her lines properly half the time. In keeping with the Conan movies, Red Sonja has comic relief sidekicks and a villain dressed all in black. Ernie Reyes and Paul Smith are the sidekicks and they're both funny. They steal the movie, really. Sandhal Bergman is the villain and she does fine considering. She was much better in Conan. The sets and props are nice. Probably were considered cheap for their time but in today's age of CGI it's nice to see people interacting with real things.It's not a bad movie of its type. You just can't take it seriously. If you enjoy cheesy sword & sorcery movies, you'll find something to like here. But if you're expecting a female equivalent of Conan the Barbarian, forget about it. It's a fun time-passer but nothing more.

Gedren seeks total power, so she attacks and kills the keepers of a powerful talisman just before it is destroyed. Gedren then uses the power of the talisman in her raid of Hablac. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren. The talisman's master Kalidor follows to protect her. He falls for her, but Sonja's power bases on the oath to never give herself to any man...It's not a good film, the makers are just cashing in on Schwarzenegger's success with his first few movies, that is why he is first billed and is so predominant on the one sheet.The film basically consists of Sonja and her group, stalking Schwarzenegger, a little prince who is smug, and his servant, walking from one scene to the next, occasionally having a sword fight.The villains spend the majority of the film in a candle lit room, staring at an orb, until the final battle.Oh, and there is a bit with a metal snake fish.It's boring, mundane stuff, but it has wonderful scenery, and an excellent score by Morricone.This is one of those films where you'd rather stare at the one sheet because it's more entertaining.Not very good at all.

This movie is advertised as an Arnold Swartzenegger movie but he really only plays a supporting character to the role of Sonja (Bridgette Neilson). The story of this movie is quiet good, carrying lots of fantasy elements in it like guardian beasts, huge spiders, wicked queens, and a powerful artifact that can destroy the world. Unfortunately the acting is really bad. One may think that the actors in this movie, even the famous Arnie, never went to acting school. This is surprising because Neilson was much better in Beverly Hills Cop II. But in this movie most of the lines were poorly delivered and the script was incredibly corny.The plot is a typical fantasy plot. A powerful artifact is to be destroyed but the wicked queen Gedren (Sandahl Bergmen) comes along with her powerful army and kills all of the priestesses and steals the talisman. The thing about the talisman is that only a woman can touch it so Gedren is very happy. She then takes the Talisman to he castle and begins her plan to conquer the world. Sonja, who has come afoul of Gedren before, learns of the attack in which her sister is killed and storms off after Gedren.This movie seems to be an anti-feminist movie. Women have the power in this movie, in regards to the talisman, and play a prominent part. Sonja hates men and believes that she can get along with out having to rely upon any man. Yet Prince Kalidor (Arnold Swartzenegger) always appears and fights for her when it seems that she is almost defeated. This movie seems to try to say that women and men need to work together and they cannot write each other out. There is also the idea, as symbolised by Kalidor and Sonja being swordspeople of equal ability, that there is no difference between men and women and that they are equals.It is a shame that most fantasy movies only come out as half-hearted attempts at some entertainment. There is truly very few good fantasy movies on the shelves of the video store. Fantasy is more of an uncliched genre as it has not really been explored as much as it could be. So far it has remained the realm of the novel but there is much room for it to move to the big screen.