Charming and brutal

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Gotta love the artistic license taken with the poster for The Warrior and the Sorceress, which shows an oiled up, muscle-bound David Carradine striking a heroic pose. It's a misleading image: Carradine, 48 years old at the time, is far from the buff barbarian depicted, keeping his presumably less-than-ripped physique covered throughout. Still, who can blame the producers for trying to generate a Conan vibe with their promotional material, given just how lame this fantasy remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo actually is?Carradine plays swordsman for hire Kain, who outwits two neighbouring tyrants, Bal Caz (Guillermo Marín) and Zeg (Luke Askew), playing them off against each other. Along the way, he rescues a Sorceress (played by Maria Socas, who spends the whole movie topless), is treated to an exotic dance by a four-breasted woman, battles a toothy monster with rubber tentacles, kidnaps a lizard puppet, defeats an evil slaver with a face like a turtle, and frees the downtrodden people of Yamatar, who only want to be able to visit the village's well in peace. While this sounds like a whole load of silly fantasy fun, the leaden direction, weak script, charmless central performance from Carradine, and a general air of cheapness make the film a real B-movie bore.

THE WARRIOR AND THE SORCERESS is a rubbishy little sword and sorcery movie released in the wake of CONAN THE BARBARIAN. From the first scene you can see it looks cheap and amateurish and quite depressing to watch. It was shot in some rocky Argentinian locations and of a no-name cast the only familiar face is David Carradine, miscast as the sword-fielding hero. He gets involved in a plot "borrowed" from YOJIMBO but everything is drawn out in the extreme and there's very little action either; CONAN this ain't. The director's emphasis is on including as much topless female nudity as possible but that's no way to sustain a film, although there's one memorable gag involving a four-breasted woman which brought to mind TOTAL RECALL.

This is an excellent bizarre movie. Carradine has to rescue the sorceress (beautiful Maria Socas). Don't miss this film.

This movie has all the classic elements of a standard fantasy movie - a few good ideas and loads of bad execution. Notable for the appearance of David Carradine who plays just about the most unsympathetic character I've seen him play. Check out the exotic dancer scene, good for a few laughs. The extras were obviously new to acting, since they could hardly have done a worse job. Nevertheless, the script has a decent plot to it.