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- MOVIE page: Conan the Barbarian (2011)
- Rate: 5.1/10 total 60,106 votes
- Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
- Runtime: 113 min
- Filming Location: Bulgaria
- Budget: $70,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross: $21,270,904 (USA) (30 September 2011)
- Director: Marcus Nispel
- Stars: Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, Ron Perlman | See full cast and crew
- Original Music By: Tyler Bates
- Sound Mix: Datasat | Dolby Digital
- Plot Keyword: Warrior | Warlord | Revenge | Battle | Boy
- Thomas Dean Donnelly (written by) &
- Joshua Oppenheimer (written by) and
- Sean Hood (written by)
- Robert E. Howard (character of Conan)
Conan the Barbarian (2011) Synopsis :
During the Hyborean Age, a group of sorcerers from Acheron created a mask from the skulls of dead kings and sacrificed their pure-blooded daughters to the dark gods in order to give the mask the power to subjugate the entire world. After killing countless people in their campaign to conquer the planet, the sorcerers were defeated by the Cimmerians led by Corin (Ron Perlman), who destroys the mask, scattering the pieces across the land, and keeping one for himself.Years later, the Cimmerians are at war with a rival clan. Corin's pregnant wife is fatally injured in the battle, but is able to give birth to a son, Conan, before succumbing to her injuries. Conan's birth on a battlefield, and subsequent survival, is considered to be a powerful omen.
As an adolescent, Conan (Leo Howard) becomes a fierce, but unfocused, warrior. After a young Conan returns from a warrior's trial with the severed heads of members of a savage tribe, Corin takes the boy to his foundry and teaches him the Riddle of S.......
Goofs: Revealing mistakes: During the final battle, Conan's sword is pressed up against his arm, yet it doesn't cut him at all.
Plot: An vengeful barbarian warrior sets off to get his revenge on the evil warlord who attacked his village and murdered his father when he was a boy. Full summary » »
Story: A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil. Written byAnonymous
Produced By:
- John Baldecchi known as producer
- Boaz Davidson known as producer
- Danny Dimbort known as executive producer
- George Furla known as executive producer
- Joe Gatta known as producer
- Samuel Hadida known as executive producer
- Eda Kowan known as executive producer
- Avi Lerner known as producer
- Danny Lerner known as producer
- Fredrik Malmberg known as producer
- Trevor Short known as executive producer
- Les Weldon known as producer
- Henry Winterstern known as producer
- Jason Momoa known as Conan
- Stephen Lang known as Khalar Zym
- Rachel Nichols known as Tamara
- Ron Perlman known as Corin
- Rose McGowan known as Marique
- Bob Sapp known as Ukafa
- Leo Howard known as Young Conan
- Steven O'Donnell known as Lucius
- Nonso Anozie known as Artus
- Raad Rawi known as Fassir
- Laila Rouass known as Fialla
- Saïd Taghmaoui known as Ela-Shan
- Milton Welsh known as Remo
- Borislav Iliev known as Wild Man
- Nathan Jones known as Akhun
- Diana Lyubenova known as Cheren (as Diana Lubenova)
- Ioan Karamfilov known as Donal
- Raicho Vasilev known as City Guard #1
- Stanimir Stamatov known as City Guard #2
- Nikolay Stanoev known as Lieutenant (as Nikolai Stanoev)
- Ivana Staneva known as Young Marique
- Alina Puscau known as Lara
- Zlatka Raikova known as Slavegirl #2
- Anton Trendafilov known as Xaltotun
- Aysun Aptulova known as Sacrificial Victim
- Daniel Rashev known as Acolyte Priest
- Jackson Spidell known as Pict #2
- Guillermo Grispo known as Pict #3 (as Guilermo Grispo)
- Radoslav Parvanov known as Pict #4
- Teodora Duhovnikova known as Nun (Student #1)
- Shelly Varod known as Nun (Student #2)
- Tezdjan Ahmedova known as Nun
- Ulyana Chan known as Nun (as Uliana Vin)
- Yoanna Temelkova known as Nun (as Yoana Temelkova)
- Nadia Konakchieva known as Nun
- Petya Mlluseva known as Nun
- Ruslana Kaneva known as Nun
- Gloria Petkova known as Nun
- Zdravka Krastenyakova known as Nun
- Stanislav Pishtalov known as Cimmerian Elder - Uran
- Velimer Velev known as Prison Clerk
- Zhaidarbek Kunguzhinov known as Monk (as Zhaidarbek Kunguzhino)
- Eric Laciste known as Monk
- Brian Andrew Mendoza known as Monk
- Kim Do known as Monk
- Bashar Rahal known as Quarter Master
- Gisella Marengo known as Maliva
- Yoana Petrova known as Young Marique
- Vladimir Vladimirov known as Den Barman
- Sam Hargrave known as Horse Warrior (as Samuel Hargrave)
- Katarzyna Wolejnio known as Valeria (as Katarzyna Wolenjino)
- David Mason Chlopecki known as Pirate
- Alexandrina Vladova known as Belly Dancer (as Aleksandrina Vladova)
- Guerguina Ilieva known as Belly Dancer
- Stefka Berova known as Mama
- Vangelitsa Karadjova known as Topless Wench
- Blagovesta Cakova known as Topless Wench
- Svetlana Vasileva known as Topless Wench
- Zornitsa Stoicheva known as Topless Wench
- Zhenia Zheleva known as Topless Wench
- Nikol Vasileva known as Topless Wench
- Adriana Kalcheva known as Topless Wench
- Morgan Freeman known as Narrator
- Zlateto Keremedchieva known as Topless Wench (uncredited)
- Raw Leiba known as Rexor (uncredited)
- Radka Petkova known as Archer (uncredited)
- Paul Stefanov known as Cimmerian boy (uncredited)
Production Companies:
- Nu Image Films
- Millennium Films
- Paradox Entertainment
MPAA: Rated R for strong bloody violence, some sexuality and nudity
Conan the Barbarian (2011) Review by wordmonkey from San Francisco, Ca.
Director Marcus Nispel is undoubtedly the long-lost offspring of trashmaster and fellow German, Uwe Boll, as this film is so profoundly awfulon every level that it's hard to think that it wasn't intentionallymade this way.
Remarkably, the movie gets bad immediately and stays that way. One ofits most jarring aspects is that it begins with Morgan Freeman'snarration, which sounds so utterly out of place, with his comforting,slightly Southern drawl the total opposite of everything bloody andCimmerian, that it instantly comes across like self-parody, as if wewere seeing some schticky Mel Brooks interpretation after the fact.This ham-handed disregard for appropriate tone haunts every frame ofthe film.
The story fails to find the real Conan -- who in Robert E. Howard'sstories is a smart, tough, brutal survivor -- and instead seems toreveal to us the underwhelming idea that Conan's just another hunkysword dude with a knack for slaughter.
The script inconsistently sticks to any epic poetic flair in thedialog, so that when such words are delivered, they feel forced andflat. The noted line "I live, I love, I slay, and I am content," ismeted out with such lack of panache or feeling that I wanted to washout Jason Momoa's mouth with soap, right after forcing him to watchSchwarzenegger -- not a great actor, by any means -- deliver theunforgettable tagline: "To crush your enemies, drive them before you,and to hear the lamentation of their women." But then again, JohnMilius bothered to direct his actors.
Stephen Lang (Colonel Quaritch of "Avatar") is the half-assed villainKhalar Zym, who inspires zero awe and no respect on his whatever questfor some supernatural thingy, which is such an afterthought that youconstantly forget about it. And post plastic-surgery Rose McGowan ashis witchy daughter Marique is so outrageously goth that you half-wishfor a Sisters of Mercy musical cue every time she steps on camera; ifonly her performance received the same attention as her over-the-topcostumes. Ron Perlman, as Conan's father, is simply wasted. Weep!
I'm totally sick of the short-attention-span style of storytelling. Thefilmmakers are so afraid that if some big action sequence doesn't occurevery ten minutes, that we'll be bored; and of course, this quickly hasthe opposite effect, as we instead become bored from so much pointless,poorly shot and edited action unsupported by character or story. Videogames often have more character development than this film, and yes,I'm specifically thinking of the comparatively Shakespearean strugglesportrayed in Donkey Kong.
I bestowed two stars on this flick, as the second is for unintentionalhilarity, of which the film has much. Its hyperbolic Hyboriancartoonishness makes you either wince or chuckle derisively. Hopefully,as many heads as roll on screen will also roll in Hollywood for thisabortive, dreadful garbage.
Perhaps the noble Conan will someday get his proper due in a modernfilm. But not today.
Conan the Barbarian (2011) Review by Sausage_Demon from Australia
First, I would like to say I love Howard's stories. I also like the 82film. So that this deviates from Howard a little (or a lot) isn'treally a bother to me.
Now, before I get to the review I want to say to anyone out therestudying film (like myself) to watch this movie. It will prove to youthat no matter how much action, blood or one liners you squeeze into amovie, if the story and characterization are missing you don't have amovie.
Without ANY disrespect, I would urge Mr. Nispel to do a film course, ashe clearly needs to learn story telling at its most basic. This is notan insult, this is advice, because I believe once he has a better graspon it, he will make a fine film maker.
Conan the Barbarian is a summer movie. Sadly this also has becomesynonymous with stupid, bad movies. And this film doesn't escape that.Clearly this film had a lot of trouble, by the looks of it at theconceptual stage. The fact the Sean Hood had to rewrite on set provesthe material they had to work with was a disaster, and it shows.
Donelley and Oppenheimer (forgive my spelling) did a poor job on thescript, if, what was shown in the final cut was more or less what theywrote. Mr. Hood's rewrites I heard were quite well received, but I alsohear they cut most of what he wrote out of the cinematic cut...
This film, cursed with a poor script fails at even just anentertainment level. Sure, there is lots of action and fighting, butthere is no emotion behind it. I was actually bored half way through ofthe fighting and wanted some damn character scenes, of which there arenone of note. And that is another problem, after the first act (youngConan) nobody has any character. They walk around, kill or die and thatis all. Their motivations are given to us in a single line and that isall.
The cast were good, but they had nothing to work with. The directingwas inconsistent, the mood was all over the place, at times it smelt ofa less fun Scorpion King with Artus and Elan-sha (I know I got thosenames wrong) being out of place "comic relief". Stephen Lang, as usualis good, but again, he has nothing to work with, so he stands and actsmean a lot.
The one thing that really took me out of the world of the film, is thedialogue. Which lacks any sort of finesse, culture, period etc. Itsounds like modern speech... which is one thing it shouldn't soundlike. Imagine watching a Western where they all talk in modern Americanslang, that is what this dialogue felt like. It was dialogue you writein your first draft, then go back over and make it good...though itseems no one did in Conan.
The film looked nice, I'll give it that. Some scenes were too brightand conflicted with the mood, but again, the mood changed as often asit would in an angst ridden teenager. The CGI wasn't bad, it wasn'tgreat but it was serviceable.
The Dweller scene was pathetic. There was no choreography, set up toit, Momoa literally stood in one spot for most of it and did justducked around a lot. Clearly a complete failure in the directingdepartment for this scene which had no climax.
Costume and wardrobe design was impressive. Lang's armour and get upwere nice, McGowan looked sexy in a freaky kind of way. So visually italmost always worked.
Overall, I suggest seeing it if you are curious, it isn't the worstthing to happen to cinema by a long shot. But, with no story, at leastnone that is told in a coherent way, no character development ormotivation and no sense of culture or the world the characters(caricatures) inhabit it not only fails as a Conan movie, it fails as amovie. It fails as a coherent story told with moving pictures, itbreaks the very foundation of cinema's rules. It cannot engage anaudience, because there is nothing for us to care about. As a videogame, this would kick arse. As a movie, it falls on it.
Conan the Barbarian (2011) Review by tj_director from North Wales, UK
I'd seen the original a long time ago.. but I still knew the generalidea of what to expect before going into this reboot.. an R-Ratedwarrior action film with slight elements of the supernatural that wasmore about entertainment value than high art, suffice it to say,suffice is probably too complicated a word for the audience this remakeis aimed at.
I liked Momoa from Game of Thrones, he had the perfect physical qualityto portray a warrior, and despite being a character of few words hereally sold it for me, and as a result I really could see how he wasideal casting for Conan, he's a more rugged Dwayne Johnson.. but Istill feel Johnson has a lot of untapped potential to be one of thereal action stars of the decade along with Diesel and Statham.. butit's good to know Momoa is in line to join these guys.
Back to the film... from the very first scene, you are basically toldthis movie is going to be over the top in a bad and very lazy way..apparently Conan is "battle born", in other words his father RonPerlman is surrounded by countless merciless foes, of which he takesdown a couple while screaming, and then he tends to his pregnant wife,akin to a scene from the recent Cowboys & Aliens, we are taught thatduring Hollywood battles you are allowed respite from the enemy if youenter an emotional two shot close up with a loved or cherished one, noone will dare attack you, it simply wouldn't be fair.. so yes amidstthe carnage Perlman and wife share some tender and distraught words,she wishes to see her son before she dies, and without even reallylooking he takes a nasty looking knife and performs the fastestC-section known to mankind, and voila.. he brings up a CGI baby.. themother looks on, smiles, then dies, Hellboy is highly moved by theseevents, so decides to perform a Lion King and holds the child aloft andscreams out loud, the camera pulls in beckoning the film's title toforce itself upon us.. this scene literally lasts 3-4 minutes.. andnone of the attacking savages notices it happening, or pays anyattention to the angry barbarian king screaming and holding a newbornbaby above his head.. As i said i came into this film willing to holdmy disbelief.. but seriously.. could this scene not have taken place ina hut or some other hidden shelter? Conan would still have been"battle-born", the first thing he tasted (like every child) would stillhave been his mother's blood, yet it would have been ten times moreintimate and moving, and hundred times more believable. I completelyunderstand this isn't meant to be highbrow, but there's no harm inadding just a slight bit of realism and genuine emotion to afundamental scene, It will only involve the audience more and at littleexpense to any of the tone. As a result of this scene, I never caredfor any character for any moment.. the film failed from its veryinception.
If Lord of The Rings was Peter Jackson making love to the audience,Conan is him self pleasuring himself in a dirty motel room. From theMorgan Freeman LOTR rip off introductory montage, the whole film isdumb and completely forgettable, apart from the occasional cool move ina fight, every single action moment is a blurry fast motion mediumshot.. the failsafe of every director since Nolan decided to publiclyshowcase such laziness in Batman Begins.. it's pure laziness on everycount, move the camera fast, add some crunchy sound design and BOOM,you have an action scene.. what's the best fight scene of the lastdecade? Old Boy and the Hammer, and there isn't a single cut in that,or any fast camera move, it's just good old fashioned choreography andstunt acting.. the only good or partly original part in the whole filmis the sand soldier fight.. but even that is ultimately deemed moronicand pornographic, why doesn't the witch daughter use such powers orsummon up similar creatures at any other point in the film? like youknow.. say during the finale when all magic powers should have beenused, at all times. But obviously the film-makers realised that wouldhave put Conan at a big disadvantage, and caused too much of a headachefor them to solve.. I know just move the camera around a lot, and makeloads of quick edits and CGI blood splashes, it's the modern dayequivalent of a shiny object for rednecks.
Even the DBOX programming was dumb and nonsensical. The film even hadan expert thief that could pick a lock with a custom made device,called a key!! oh i wish i didn't have a limit of 1000 words.. i'd do areal Conan on this film and rip it to shreds. Yet again a film withgreat production value ruined by moronic film-makers that think guiltypleasure means no need for creativity, and yet another film permitted astupid budget simply because the Conan name has brand recognition.
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