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Saw Conan - short version is, the first part is v. good*, the middle part isn't bad, but the ending is really anti-climactic. I insisted we wait through the credits in hopes there'd be an extra twist afterwards, but there was none. On the way out, we passed a viewer who'd fallen asleep in his seat.
Further notes:
1. There are a lot of deaths by skull fracture in this film; also by impalement. After a while I was nervously scanning each new location for pointy bits people could fall on.
2. Towards the end the heroine gets chained up for sacrifice by the villains (in a sword-and-sorcery film, I don't think it's really a spoiler to mention this); the outfit they put her includes shoes that, at least in the shot I'm thinking of, look oddly 1920s. I suspect they're actually flats or sandals with ankle straps, given that once she is freed (again, not really a spoiler) she has to do a fair bit of running and fighting. She's luckier than the villainess, who in one long shot can be seen trying to pick her way down a giant flight of crumbling stone steps while wearing platform wedges**.
*It's sort of an extended version of the first couple of scenes of the original movie; also Ron Perlman plays Conan's dad, which definitely helps.
** She was much creepier as played by the child actress in the earlier scenes.
Further notes:
1. There are a lot of deaths by skull fracture in this film; also by impalement. After a while I was nervously scanning each new location for pointy bits people could fall on.
2. Towards the end the heroine gets chained up for sacrifice by the villains (in a sword-and-sorcery film, I don't think it's really a spoiler to mention this); the outfit they put her includes shoes that, at least in the shot I'm thinking of, look oddly 1920s. I suspect they're actually flats or sandals with ankle straps, given that once she is freed (again, not really a spoiler) she has to do a fair bit of running and fighting. She's luckier than the villainess, who in one long shot can be seen trying to pick her way down a giant flight of crumbling stone steps while wearing platform wedges**.
*It's sort of an extended version of the first couple of scenes of the original movie; also Ron Perlman plays Conan's dad, which definitely helps.
** She was much creepier as played by the child actress in the earlier scenes.
