Review of Krull (1983) by James T — 30 Mar 2008

Fun movie and a fave movie on mine in this genre.

Some of the effects are still really great to this day, lots of now well known faces like Liam Neeson, but back then they were all pretty much never heard off.

Lysette Anthony was only 17 when she did this movie??? My god she did not look 17, I was shocked when I found that out in the commentary on the dvd.

The real star of this movie is the soundtrack, it's an amazing score and lifts the movie from being good to being great.

(bad things) the glave is under used and the movie can drag a bit as every 2 mins a member of the party dies, infact this movie has so many actors in it, but they die 1 a min or so through the whole movie, so it gets a bit old and slows the movie down to a crawl at times. (ok, so it's not as bad as that but it sometimes can feels like it).

This put me in the mood for Flash Gordon and I watched this movie after watching Excalibur again, these 3 movies should sit beside each other on your dvd shelf.

Oh and yes that is Bernard Bresslaw (carry on movies) as the cyclops.

"In the fortress you will need more than men and swords. You will need the power of the glave.

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