Kull the Conqueror | | Cast : | Kevin Sorbo, Tia Carrere | | Director : | John Nicolella | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | August 29, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | January 06, 2004 | | Language : | Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | February 02, 2005 | | Summary | MR. HOWARD IS NOT PLEASED!!! | Content
 | Poor Robert E. Howard...He never lived nearly long enough to enjoy the fruits of his labors that would have made him a very wealthy man. Conan movies, TV shows, comics, magazines, toys...He'd be startled to learn just how popular barbarian hero had become. He'd be equally horrified to see the results of Kull the Conqueror. Kull was actually created by Howard before Conan and in fact Howard re-wrote several of his Kull stories that Weird tales rejected, as Conan stories.
One immediately knew things were not going to be good with Kevin Sorbo playing the title role. He's too slender, and altogether too 'pristine' to have played Kull who was essetially a savage tribesman, much like Conan. In Howard's original works, Kull took the throne of Valusia by force by killing the petty despot King Borna and took the crown from his head and became King...no matter who liked it or not. There was nothing so trite as the dying king merely handing over his crown to the man who just killed him...a man who was a savage at that.
Borna's heirs are none too happy that they've been left out of power and enlist the aid of a resurrected witch named Akivasha to get rid of Kull. We then get some mish mash of a quest that Kull has to complete to defeat the witch...ho hum...It's obvious that Sorbo was cast to cash in on the popularity of the Hercules TV show but he's just too nice a guy to be playing the savage Kull.
Tia Carrere fairs no better than Sorbo. Again we have someone just a little too good looking to be playing their role. And again someone whose acting talent is meager to begin with. And where is Kull'f long time companion Brule the Spearslayer? And instead of creating the new character of the witch Akivasha, why not use Kull's actual arch-enemy Thulsa Doom?
This plays more like a maede for TV movie than a big screen film. A huge disappointment. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 21, 2005 | | Summary | KEVIN THE KONKEROR | Content
| Poor Kevin Sorbo. The hunky star of the television series HERCULES had hoped this sword and sorcery tale would propel him into big screen status like Arnold or even Vin Diesel. Alas and alack, KULL THE CONQUEROR faded quickly. And it's not really that bad of a movie. Good old Kev does his best to bring some panache to his role as the barbaric but gentlemanly hero who is made king of a kingdom that once was ruled by a demonic witch. Tia Carrere is wonderfully campy as the witch, using her beautiful smile to accompany her basic evil. Thomas Ian Griffith should have watched a more capable actor like Tim Roth in ROB ROY to understand how to play a truly corrupt villain. Litefoot does okay as the "priest" who joins Sorbo in his quest for vengeance; Karina Lombard does a smooth job as the concubine who he falls for; and Harvey Fierstein is a scene stealer as Juba (like Jubba the Hutt?), who betrays Sorbo. His obvious sexual preferences are funny as he flirts with Sorbo.
The special effects are fair to middlin, and the pace gets a little slow at times, but overall KULL isn't a bad way to waste 90 minutes, particularly if you're into this type of flick. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 02, 2004 | | Summary | Do NOT anticipate this as another Conan Movie | Content
| Man,
this movie is just plain horrible. Horrid acting, horrid script, horrid everything. Just ignore this among the Robert E Howard line of movies(Conan The Barbarian, Conan The Destroyer, and Red Sonja). The others are way better, this one just doesn't do anything for me. Also, Kevin Sorbo is not much of an Atlantean Barbarian.. He's not animalistic, he's too pretty boy like. He makes me think of Fabio(Bleck). 'Nuff said; Find a better movie like any of the other previously stated movies.
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| Rating | | | Date | September 28, 2004 | | Summary | Don't take it too seriously | Content
| The story of Kull the Conqueror is quite stereotypical among fantasy stories: the hero saving the country from evil, etc. Still, that does not make the movie a bad one; on the contrary it is a surprisingly entertaining movie that never takes itself too seriously. I'm not putting Kevin Sorbo up there as one of the greatest actors of all time, but he fits in the role of Kull and does what is expected of him: he plays a hero. And in my opinion, he does a good job of that. Kull the Conqueror won't appeal to everyone, obviously, but as long as you don't take it too seriously, there is no reason not to enjoy watching. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 28, 2004 | | Summary | Fries with that? | Content
| This really isn't much of a movie. It isn't particularly enjoyable at all - perhaps most damaging is the acting from pretty much everyone involved. They come off as fast food employees rather than mythic characters - would you like fries with that slashing?
Thoroughly disappointing.
The plot itself isn't too shabby, but the dialogue is abysmal, and the whole thing just isn't put together very well.
On the whole it has the look of an episode of a television show rather than a feature.
The 96 minutes pass by quickly enough, but... there are better ways to employ that time. |
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