r-c-s
This movie is a decent, although stitched together mid-carder. The cast ought to tell it all. By an Italian perspective we have a couple soap opera junkies ( Ron Moss & Tanya Roberts ) and back then the Italian population loved soap operas, a then emerging cutie ( Barbara de Rossi ) with a terrible accent more worth of a lady trying to sell you smuggled cigarettes in southern Italy then else, plus some other mr. no-name. Some pompous shots, like Christian knights talking to their king, have been surpassed or equalled by TV ads of a liquor, go figure. It is not a terrible movie, but it is not what one might suppose it is, either. It is the typical early 80s Italian low budget "hommage" movie, that is a movie that "borrows" heavily from other movies, whether plot, devices or settings. Light years from EL CID and the cryptic and dark Excalibur. Character development is close to zero; acting is rather cardboard; action is good and scenes too.
saksd
Yes it is low budget but the music is enchanting and the costumes are excellent. The storyline was hard to follow the first time i watched it but since i like the movie so much I didn't mind watching it over and over to figure out all the stuff going on in it. I think Rugerro is so handsome and the scenery is really quite perfect for the storyline. By far though the music really made the movie for me. I have been looking for this movie to add to my collection and am glad to have found it again. I can highly recommend this film to those of you that like the knights and damsels in distress genre. It has been said to be a poor imitation of Excaliber but I think in many ways it is its equal. Yes the acting is a bit lacking in places but what is good in the film more than makes up for that little flaw.
davidikeda
This movie is really cheesy. It seems to even sort of aim for comedy value with the slightly excessive gore scenes. There's a girl in the movie that keeps getting her dress torn more and more and practically everyone tries to rape her, even a priest and one of her own soldiers along with a group of bandits. In the beginning, the group of bandits try to rape another girl, and a knight comes in and chops off some of their limbs and cripples most of them and rescues the girl. It seems the bandits never learn, because they try again, in their crippled state with missing limbs to try to rape a girl again, and then again they are scared off by a knight. It was hilarious.Still, the movie had some great fantasy elements. The wacky and bizarre costumes I really liked, even though they weren't realistic at all and kind of cheesy. Reminded me more of superhero knights.I like the story - sort of a Romeo & Juliet set in the medieval ages.The music was great. It's one of my favorite soundtracks besides the Neverending Story - very "80s"-like. The scenes and music combined sort of reminded me of video games.I think it's a very fun movie, even though it's cheesy and doesn't fit out standards or expectations of a good movie at all. It's actually one of my favorites. However, I don't expect too many others to like it. I would recommend giving this a try, however, if you're like me and want to watch all the medieval/medieval fantasy movies you can get your hands on.
Brett-9
This is the classic B film with bad acting, no story, no accuracy. All I saw was weak attempts at a love story in tin foil costumes and gratuitous nudity attempts. Not for those interested in good film.
AD
