Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jason Momoa | ... | Conan | |
Stephen Lang | ... | Khalar Zym | |
Rachel Nichols | ... | Tamara | |
Ron Perlman | ... | Corin | |
Rose McGowan | ... | Marique | |
Bob Sapp | ... | Ukafa | |
Leo Howard | ... | Young Conan | |
Steven O'Donnell | ... | Lucius | |
Nonso Anozie | ... | Artus | |
Raad Rawi | ... | Fassir | |
Laila Rouass | ... | Fialla | |
Saïd Taghmaoui | ... | Ela-Shan | |
Milton Welsh | ... | Remo | |
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Borislav Iliev | ... | Wild Man |
Nathan Jones | ... | Akhun |
Many years ago, sorcerers crafted the Mask of Acheron and dark forces of Acheron conquered the world. However, the barbarians vanquished Acheron warriors and broke the Mask into pieces and divided among the tribes. The barbarian Cimmerian village of chief Corin is attacked by the evil warlord Khalar Zym that wants the last piece of bone of the Mask of Acheron to resurrect his wife. When his witch daughter Marique finds the hidden piece, he slaughters the villagers and the Corin's son Conan is the only survivor. Conan swears revenge against Khalar Zym. Years later, the warrior Conan is a pirate and he decides to release slaves from a field. When he is celebrating in a tavern with his friends, he sees a thief being chased by a guard and Conan recognizes him as Lucius, the Khalar Zym's soldier that he cut the nose out. Conan let the guards capture him and once in the prison, he forces Lucius to tell him where Khalar Zym is. Meanwhile Khalar Zym attacks a monastery where Marique believes ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Conan lacks myth - it truly lacks that sense of myth and wonder that created a whole new genre, and it lacks cinematic vision, it lacks what makes film rather than TV, and while entertaining after a decade of Xena and Game of Thrones we deserve more than this in our big budget movies.
Casting is fine, plot is a little dull, action is half-way to OK - it's just that overall there is nothing to really put life into this - where is the wow! factor, the, yes this is film. Even if you're making a B movie it doesn't excuse it.
In the right hands and the right team this could be storytelling at its best, instead we get a film that thrives on the cliché of its genre. It may have lots of sorcery, but it truly lacks magic.