The Costuming is more convincing than the '82 version.The Bulgarian locations are outstanding.Jason Momoa, as Conan, is excellent far better than Arnie.The villains here are Khalar Zym and his witchy daughter, Marique, who seek to resurrect Zym's sorcerous wife, but they need to acquire the pure blood necessary for their Acheron magic. Looks great, nice action, but needed more depthĪlthough the set-up of “Conan the Barbarian” (2011) is the same as the 1982 version (raiders destroy Conan's village in Cimmeria and thus the barbarian seeks revenge) the story is otherwise completely different. Special effects where quite okay and the 5.1 DTS Master Audio soundtrack was done well enough. Although the Schwarzenegger films are somewhat out-dated I was still afraid that I would miss good old Schwarzy but I really didn’t (that much at least). I do not know what people really expected from this film but for me it was pretty much what I hoped for. The film is much bloodier than Schwarzenegger’s version and sometimes in a quite “barbaric” way. In reality the first statement is a blatant lie and the others simply not true. I read some reviews on IMDb stating that Conan only said about 40 words, that he wasn’t “barbaric” enough, that the fight scenes where chopped up and that you didn’t get to see much of the fighting. I found the film to be pretty much what I hoped for. It has gotten some rather disappointing ratings. I quite liked this film, more than I liked Captain America: The First Avenger that we watched a couple of days ago.
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