Somehow I managed to miss this turkey whenever it was originally released. I recently found it on one of those two-movies-for-a-buck DVD's they sell at the Dollar Tree, and am happy to report that it was worth every penny of the 50 cents it cost. I may even watch it again some time, if I can get drunk enough.
So what's a badly dubbed, Anglo-Saxon muscleman doing in thirteenth-century China, fighting the Mongols? Apparently he just wanders the globe, selflessly righting wrongs and fighting oppressors. Sort of an oily, loincloth messiah. And that, of course, is what makes these movies fun to watch. No matter how lousy the acting, no matter how ridiculous the dialogue, no matter how fragmented the continuity, no matter how asinine the plot, the bad guys always get killed in nasty ways, and the oppressed good guys liberated, by a hero who just walks off into the sunset at the end, demanding neither money, nor sex, nor even bus fare. Wouldn't that be nice?
Of course, Gordon Scott did do some nifty stunt work with the killer chariot, and he really made hash out of that stuffed tiger. And watch for a brief cameo appearance by a bug crawling across the camera lens during the big smackdown at the end. It is probably the most natural piece of acting in the whole movie.
So what's a badly dubbed, Anglo-Saxon muscleman doing in thirteenth-century China, fighting the Mongols? Apparently he just wanders the globe, selflessly righting wrongs and fighting oppressors. Sort of an oily, loincloth messiah. And that, of course, is what makes these movies fun to watch. No matter how lousy the acting, no matter how ridiculous the dialogue, no matter how fragmented the continuity, no matter how asinine the plot, the bad guys always get killed in nasty ways, and the oppressed good guys liberated, by a hero who just walks off into the sunset at the end, demanding neither money, nor sex, nor even bus fare. Wouldn't that be nice?
Of course, Gordon Scott did do some nifty stunt work with the killer chariot, and he really made hash out of that stuffed tiger. And watch for a brief cameo appearance by a bug crawling across the camera lens during the big smackdown at the end. It is probably the most natural piece of acting in the whole movie.