The Warrior and the Sorceress

This old gem is great fun to watch. It's not going to win any awards or anything, but it's very entertaining for a low budget fantasy movie. David Carradine basically plays his character Cain from Kung Fu, meaning he barely talks and does his little facial expressions.

It's like a combination of Kung Fu and Conan the Barbarian. Some of things in this movie just crack me up, like the almost slow motion fighting, to an animatronic lizard pet. There are also breasts all over the place, which is nice.

First thing I noticed at the beginning of the movie was that it's a rip off of the Clint Eastwood movie "A fist full of Dollars". They used the same basic plot and dropped it into a Sword & Sorcerer movie.

Despite it's admitted disadvantages, it's still a fun movie to watch. You will laugh at parts that aren't suppose to be funny because they are corny, or whatever, but that's part of the fun. Carradine does his Cain-type fighting, meaning that it's almost slow motion, which cracks me up. Sometimes the bad guy will react before Carradine hits him, haha.

Honestly though, it's worth a watch. Check it out.

David Carradine really had it for the type of movie you can see here. Being a warrior and having a mentality for it. This is losely connected to Death Stalker (at least that's what the box set this is included suggests), but other than a similar themed fantasy and a lot of nudity, I couldn't really tell.

To be fair I liked David here more than in his dream project (also Bruce Lees pet project he unfortunately never got to realize). Then again, that doesn't say much and this still is not really reaching any heights ... it does what it does and it gives you what you should expect - nothing more though

The production values of this feature is at a minimun, the acting horrible, David Carradine I gotta laugh out loud at this character. The acting is in fact so bad that I appreciated Arnold's Conan enterpretation. The move sets a new standard for Bad bad bad B movies.

The sets are as cheesy as I've ever seen em... The plot is fair enough though. Special effects: laughable, cool talking lizard :P

If you dont have anything better to do, you could check it out but dont expect too much though.

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.

Warrior and the Sorceress is a fantasy version of the classic Japanese film Yojimbo, which was later remade as A Fistful Of Dollars. Basically, a stranger with no name (David Carradine) comes into town amongst rival factions fighting over a well, the only source of water. He plays both sides of the fence, yada yada yada....you've all seen it a zillion times.

What makes this different, besides the setting, is the fantasy/medieval weirdness factor, including the sorceress (Maria Socas, looking fetching as she does the entire film sans a top), a telepathic (and incredibly phony) monitor lizard, and, to top it all off, a dance by a lady with four (count 'em, four!) honkers. And, I have to admit, her prosthetics seemed to me incredibly well done. Maybe that's just me.

The swordplay was quite good, and the acting (though not spectacular), was entirely adequate. It seems like everyone involved had a great time, and so did I.

For your rental (or purchase) dollar, you could do a whole lot worse...