Conan The Barbarian 3D

Growing up as a kid, i loved the comic books Conan The Barbarian. It was brutal, and took the revenge theme to a whole new level. The first movie made back in 1982, with Schwarznegger as Conan, became a cult classic. It was an epic tale, of a young boy who seek revenge on his parents death. The so called sequel Conan The Destroyer had some fun moments, but was not even close as good as the first motion picture. Its taken a very long time to do an update, since 1984. For many different reasons, but here it is. And its in 3D, so does Conan The Barbarian please sword swinging Comic Con fans?

Corin ( Ron Perlman ) saves his childs life on the battlefield, just before the mother dies. The boy is named Conan. Corin is the chief of an barbarian tribe, who tries to learn his son to survive in many different ways, in case he must defend his own life. One day Conan´s village is attacked by the evil warlord Khalar Zym ( Stephen Lang ) , who is looking for the last piece of the Mask of Acheron. His daughter Marique finds it, wich will give Khalar great powers. Conan tries to stop them but ends up chained. Seeing his father die, he is left in the village, and sworn to revenge his fathers death. Years later, Conan ( Jason Momoa ) is still on the hunt, now as a pirate in the city of Messantia. With some help, he sets slaves free from one of Khalar´s soldiers prison, where he gets new information of Khalar´s location. The real journey is just about to begin.

If you were hoping that this is as epic as the original movie, then you will be dissapointed. Conan The Barbarian is way more brutal than before, but thats not negative. What makes this movie work is what director Marcus Nispel set out to do, bring Conan alive once more to kick more ass than ever. There is some bad acting, but try and look at this from a entertainment perspective. Conan The Barbarian 3D is a macho movie, just as hard as Ron Jeremy´s morning wood. If Conan were alive today, he would swing his sword to destroy Gossip Girls for sure, that´s why we need Conan to set things straight. Sometimes it´s just nice to destroy first, and ask questions later.


Rating: DDD