Amazons Movie Reviews

I study Amazons in both the ancient world and in modern incarnations of the legends. You have to watch this movie without expectation of historical anything -- within two minutes I could hear how badly it would destroy anything vaguely historical. There is a plot and it does circle back to the beginning and reach a conclusion to the opening conflicts but the points between are rather weak. It has a soft-porn quaity to it -- lots of breasts and female bum, very little male nudity, the sex is all distant and softly lit. Ultimately it feels like someone had an interesting idea, some productors messed with it and got their sex buddies jobs in it, and the result is something not really worth you dollars.

This movie is O.K., beautiful girls, dastardly villains, good versus evil, fight for womens rights and against abuse/slavery, etc. A couple of fine fight scenes and the heroine isn't allmighty. All good points.

But (there's always a but), some poor interpretations damage the film; I'm not an historical purist, but enough is enough...in 60 A.D. Caesar and Brutus! Marcus Crassius hero of the punic wars (the last one ended on 146 B.C.), captured Spartacus (71 B.C.) and is "now" governor of some far away province (60 A.D.)!!!! Is he a Vampire?or some kind of immortal?? There are so many persons and events in Roman history that those blunders shouldn't happen. Look I'm not discussing vests, weapons and armor or even the idea of Amazons in the 1st century, only that minimal knowledge is required to make an historical action movie...Amazons and Gladiators could very well have the evil Hurzegtikastishan empire fighting the jokastinoras tribe of freedom fighters as background...the rome/romans of this film are as real as the Hurzegtikastishan.

Well, watch the movie but don't expect to learn anything historical...except the look of Roman Spears (Pilum), they are very good reconstructions. I give two stars because when I forgot about the anachronisms and mistakes, I enjoyed the show.

I was exctied to see this movie. I'm a great fan of the tv show, Xena (and the Amazons in it) so I thought this would be sort of like it. It was but the Amazons in this movie were no where as fierce or interesting. The acting at the beginning of the movie was horrendously aweful. We've got young Serena (the main character) trying to attack her sister's boyfriend and throwing knifes at a wall. Then the Romans come and kill most of her family and then she has to save her mother but her mother dies. It would have been heartbreaking and dramatic but it wasn't. The acting was totally unconvincing. Later, I watched Gladiator and realized how this move follows the story line of that move very closely. Both Serena and Maximus (guy in Gladiator) get there families killed by Romans and get sold as slaves. Then they are made to be gladiators and have to kill people and at the time, trying to kill some Roman emperor. The only difference is that Serena got to be the Amazons for a while. Anyway, I gave this movie a two because I like action movies that take place back in Ancient Greece \ Roman times Also, the older Serena and the other cast were fine actors \ actresses. The fighting was okay and it was interesting enough to keep me watching. This is a movie that should be rented other than bought.

"Amazons" is in my opinion the weakest of New Concordes sword-and-sorcery reissues on DVD, but that's not to say that this movie doesn't have it's perks.

If you've seen Deathstalker or Barbarian Queen you pretty much know what to expect here. The movie follows the story of two amazons on a quest to find a sword that can stop the evil wizard who is plagueing the land. Not very original, but in the movie's defense that's not all the movies' really about. There's plenty of sub-plots, such as a blood fued between two amazons, a woman who transforms into a tiger and is sent by the wizard to follow the amazons, a group of defenseless virgins who always fall victim to a group of cannibals, and an underground resistance movement with plenty of backstabbing to go around.

The movie of course has it's share of nudity (though it is not as gratuitous as some of the other movies in the sword-and-sorcery series), and suprisingly except for a few seconds at the beginning, the movie contains no stock footage from previous films (people who've seen the others will know what I mean). All in all this is a good movie (actually if i had the chance to start over again I would give this movie 4 stars) if you liked Deathstalke, Barbarian Queen, or are a fan of sword-and-sorcery films this is a good movie (though one shouldn't expect much in the way of special effects)