Bennett was a ridiculous casting choice for the main baddie. He looked like a fat reject from an S&M convention. (Wtf was the deal with that chain-mail vest?) Every time he started bragging about how tough he was, I cracked up laughing. You never had the slightest sense that he could hurt Matrix.
shareI quickly lost interest in this movie, never finished it and I was a fan of Arnold from his Pumping Iron days.
shareYou probably got the idea of where it was headed. Arnold becomes a one-man army, wiping out dozens and dozens of bad guys in order to rescue his daughter. Predictable but reasonably fun. At this point in time, it's also a bit of an 80's nostalgia trip with the cars, clothes, soundtrack and other anachronisms.
shareI used to love Frank Frazetta's fantasy artwork as a teenager and when I saw Arnold cast in the role of Conan the Barbarian, I was excited. I thought Hollywood had made the right choice; he really looked the part.
shareWell, this was the movie I first heard of Arnold in the 80's and I loved the action.
As for Bennett, I've never seen him again.
I guess he looked like a tough character back when I was a child in the 80's. I mean, the clothes, the knives, the fight scenes and the shoot-outs... Bennett was a typical 80's baddie.
In retrospect now that three decades have flown by and we now have a different kind of "baddies" with new weapons, another kind of action movies... I still don't think Bennett was too bad, in fact, I am rewatching this movie now for the umpteenth time and that's why I'm checking it out on moviechat.org.
I've never kicked open a garden shed in the same way ever since...🤕
share" we now have a different kind of "baddies" with new weapons, another kind of action movies.."
yeah , Superhero bullshit :(
At least Arnie pretended not to be bulletproof!