Director: Marcus Nispel
Production: NuImage & Millennium Films, 2011
Ever heard of the genre of swords and sandals? Or some call it Sword and Sorcery? It's actually a filmic genre that lately more often classified as an adventure or action in a big box. There also are put into the fantasy genre. But Mainly, it's like Myths and Legends, which can indeed immense range of his timeline. Of war between the Roman empire as, gladiators, Vikings to the stories of Greek mythology such as Hercules, magic, enchanted, even the tribes in the fictional timeline that pretty much dominated the genre and not infrequently with each other in a casual crossover. Formerly, in the era of 50-60s, swords and sandals genre this film could be a trend in the U.S. before finally emerging in Europe and a class B product until the early '80s. The names of the characters often bombastic-sounding titles such as Ator, Hundra, Red Sonja, Kull to the most famous in the genre, Conan. Character itself is a creation of author Robert E. Howard in the early 30's titled 'Conan The Barbarian' which later appeared in various formats ranging from novels, to comic strips that had also released the Marvel and Dark Horse in the future developments are no longer written in part by Howard. With so much variety in the stories of Conan before, there are different characteristics that actually awakened by the comic-comic format that is so legendary in the era of 70s to early 80s, where most of the comics into children's consumption. Conan comics filled with sadism and the girls look sexy as a companion, often implies sexual intercourse is still within the comics and not explicit, but a little more daring.
And so, two consecutive movie adaptation in 1982 (Conan The Barbarian) and 1984 (Conan The Destroyer) was once famous for besides catapulted bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger's name and filled with big stars like Max Von Sydow and James Earl Jones, making also led filmmaker-renowned filmmakers such as director John Milius, Oliver Stone who co-wrote the screenplay and producer Dino DeLaurentiis is famous for its blockbuster-blockbusternya. But there is one missing in the current trend that time the fantasy genre. Display escort girls are all sexy with minimal costumes remain, but two instalmen it completely eliminates the sadism of one of the buildings so comic. Instalmen all three had to be continued by various other parties, but again foundered. Only be transferred to another adaptation of Howard's work, Kull the Conqueror, starring Kevin Sorbo, and only failed miserably because the trigger Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California. Projects that had moved from Wachowski Brothers, Robert Rodriguez until Brett Ratner finally fell into the hands of copyrights as most of the work NuImage Howard turned into the public domain because of failure claim. Directed by Marcus Nispel, who has long been crisscrossing the ads and video clips ultimately trusted because of his success to remake classic horror movies (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th). The election of TV actor Jason Momoa (Baywatch, Game Of thrones) which has an exotic-looking Hawaiian native blood in her eyes sharp, tall and muscular, the more impressive that Conan will be returned to the grip that had been expected fans. Sadistic and merciless. So here comes the movie.
Early in the timeline set in the fictional works of Howard with narration by Morgan Freeman, Hyborean Age, a period before the formation of ancient civilization, a group of wizards of Acheron create a mask of the skull of the kings of the blood given their daughters who sacrificed for the mask's power to dominate the world. Barbarian tribes led by Corin (Ron Perlman) and then managed to kill the witches Acheron, buried fragments of the mask and save the pieces so that nobody could get it back. His son, Conan small (Leo Howard), who was born directly from the belly of the mother who was killed when attacked by an enemy tribe, is also developing so tough kid. But the attack is Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang), an ambitious warlord who intend to have the last part of the mask to master Hyborea end it all. The whole tribe was murdered by the sadistic Corin. Conan was forced to watch Corin small sacrifice themselves for him.
20 years later, Conan adults (Jason Momoa), which still held a grudge continues to trace the footsteps with his best friend Khalar Zym Artus (Nonso Anozie). From Lucius (Steven O'Donnell), a former soldier Zym Messantia ruler who conquered with a thief, Ela-Shan (Said Taghmaoui), Conan finally learned that Zym plotting an attack on a monastery in order to obtain pure blood descendants of Acheron from a nun, Tamara (Rachel Nichols). Before Zym and the daughter of a ruthless magician, Marique (Rose McGowan) Tamara who escaped capture, rescue and first Conan charming Zym accomplice, Remo (Milton Welsh) who also killed his father first. Conan eventually learned that the mask was Zym require power in order to revive his wife who was murdered by the monks. In the attack, Conan managed to hurt Marique and Tamara who became involved relationship with him caught. With the help of Elah-Shan, Conan and then break through the castle to rescue Tamara Zym once complete revenge. However Zym has also managed to obtain power from the blood Tamara mask.
Like a recipe modification, this latest version of Conan is still not have a concoction that was really fit. On the one hand, the duo of writers Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer have just bring the 'Dylan Dog' all-round responsibility that it looks quite successfully restore the original look of Conan into a harsh and cruel. Although raised many new characters including Khalar Zym and Marique, part of the building plot also carries the same feel to the comic-comic, complete with love interest pretty but not weak (in his Conan Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman came up with full strength but forget the look of beautiful girls ), part of the slaves, thieves, old monk and a witch. From the 15-minute opening sequence that really kicked off, the action scenes full of blood bermuncratan impressive side with scenes of nudity and adult sex-scene between Conan Tamara LSF partially cleared (though nudity with the view that slaves nipples off smoothly). Jason Momoa figure with muscular body and his eyes were also fitted to translate the images in the comic, plus Rachel Nichols had a classic innocent face very similar to the European bomseks 70s, Sydne Rome.
But on the other hand, another deficiency also seems to be present almost as much. In addition subplots that are too dense leaving the potential characters such as Ela-Shan and Artus so just passing and intensity of the fight sequencenya dibesut with emotional ups and downs, some special effects are also not too special. The dialogue? Ah, sounds too modern for the ancient setnya, which is also only limited to tolerable. Worse yet, Stephen Lang as the main villain portrayed the creepy look soft until the final parts. Milton Welsh as a makeup Remo Lang was more terrible than that. Far from Rose McGowan is still quite pretty polished as Marique but unfortunately not maximized by the scenario. And this is all that matters. Outside the burly figure and his eyes, looked Momoa also can not imply that charisma is really full of this legendary character. Arnold Schwarzenegger may have no right of expression and intonation gedenya muscle behind the match, but his charisma as the main character goes well. However, if you do read and love the comics, this is much closer to his original than John Milius Conan. Was not that disappointing overall adaptation to the advantages and disadvantages are almost equal. Unfortunately the parakeets as rights holders are reluctant to buy its imports in Indonesia its 3D version. Although the conversion product again, fighting sequences with blood bermuncratan it certainly will be more nice in 3D format.
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