Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

bombersflyup Red Sonja is an awful film in absolutely every way. Though due to amusement, doesn't fall into the worst films of all time category.Paul Smith as Falcon really shone through. In the battle between Red Sonja and Queen Gedren, I was thinking "don't look at the wizard, don't look at the wizard, do not.. look at the wizard" and she looked at the wizard.

hoggalexander I saw this in the late 80s. I have seen it several times since.Yes, it has dated somewhat. Yes, the effects have dated as much as the content and story. Yes, some of the acting is.... errr.... a little weak. Some of the humour side doesn't work and some of the drama isn't. Kalidor almost turns this into another Arnie movie (and to be honest I preferred both Arnold's Conan films to this) but....WHY IS IT SO MUCH FUN!?

bensonmum2 The plot of this movie is almost identical to the plot in any number of other sword and sorcerer movies that came out in the 80s. Other than the fact that the title character, Red Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen), is a woman, there's not much else in the way of originality. Red Sonja's sister is killed by an evil queen (Sandahi Bergman) intent on getting her hands on a powerful orb. Red Sonja vows revenge and goes after the queen. Along the way, she gathers a ragtag band to assist her, including Cona . . . er, I mean Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger). They'll have lots of adventures and battles along the way – leading to a final showdown between Sonja and the queen.Despite what a lot of people around the internet would lead you to believe, Red Sonja isn't horrible – well, not horrible when you compare it with a lot of the other Conan wannabes that came out in the early 80s. In fact, parts of the films are a lot of fun. There are some pretty decent fight scenes (the best being the sparring matches between Nielsen and Schwarzenegger), at least one interesting creature, and a couple of cool looking sets. I really enjoyed seeing Sandahi Bergman in the role of the queen. Here, she seems to be having a blast. Her final showdown with Nielsen is actually quite good and really gives the film a nice ending.Of all the problems you could list when discussing Red Sonja, the most obvious is the poor acting. My understanding is that prior to taking the role of Red Sonja, Brigitte Nielsen was a magazine model with no acting experience. This was her first role. Schwarzenegger has never been known as a thespian. He's fun to watch, but he's always been limited. Finally, Ernie Reyes Jr wasn't really an actor either. Here, he's just annoying. It says a lot about the quality of the cast when I can say in all honesty that Sandahi Bergman is the best actor in the film.Finally, one thing about Red Sonja I find hysterical is her repeated insistence that she needs no help - especially from a man. Yet at every tun, Cona . . . I mean Kalidor is there to save her butt. She'd have been dead half way through the film if it weren't for him.

Klinoman This review will be short. I'm giving this rating with a heavy heart. It had passed 15+ years since I heard and watched the intro again. A warrior riding in vast landscapes while one of the greatest soundtracks ever made is playing in tempo with the galloping of the horse. It's truly epic. A birds view shot from the temple, great photography of the priestesses doing their ritual. The evil queen arrives and takes the talisman away, finishing off the remaining alive by dropping them in the talisman's hole. She pulls the lock off the hole's hatch and drops the key in it, assuring a brutal doom to the priestesses. Till there, you think, this is quite great, why is this movie so underrated? Well, from this point on, is where almost everything should have been revised or rewritten. I rest my case.