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Ancient Warriors: Volume 1

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Unfortunately a number of people have placed bad reviews for a completely unrelated movie on this listing. I gave it five stars to compensate for this, but honestly I would not have anything negative to say anyway (except perhaps that I wish the episodes where longer and that they made more of them). All the episodes are masterfully crafted and engrossing. The use of a singluar narrative following one character while overviewing their entire warrior culture was a great idea. It personolizes otherwise abstract historical occasions and gives you a feeling for what it would have really been like. A few episodes do stick out, such as "The Spartans" because it's simply such a great and inspiring story, and "The Ninja" (just because ninjas are so bloody cool). I hate to be a boring cliche, but this series is indeed both educational and entertaining. You won't be disappointed.

this was a very good dvd covering most aspects of ancient warriors and how they lived and fought mostly to survive in hard and tough times it was not over the top and very interesting
and covered some new ground i had not heard before.i would
recodemn this dvd to anyone intrested in ancient times and cultures.

This film is poorly edited, the transfer to DVD is poor, and the actual picture is grainy - like they used cheap film to make it. The story is about a mercenary who is after another mercenary who killed his father; he is really bad because he is messing with chemical weapons and ancient European tombs (which explains the title).

Don't waste a minute watching this.

...because the ANCIENT WARRIORS have little to do in this truly terrible movie. Former bodybuilder Franco Columbu has managed to make Arnold Schwarzenegger look like Laurence Olivier. His "performance" is one of the worst acting leads on celluloid. He plays a mercenary whose father is killed during a botched operation. A year later, he moans around the house about his father's death and volunteers at a school for retarded children, where his daughter is one of the students. Under the inept direction of Walter von Huene, this poor young lass comes across as comical; whether she's truly retarded or not, the script doesn't seem to want to do anything but exploit her "gift." Anyway, Columbu finds out that a local mining operation is really a covert operation for the making of chemical warfare, under the auspices of long time bad man Richard Lynch. Lynch, who is usually a capable performer, spends most of his time coughing into a hanky, as he has some kind of mysterious disease that is going to kill him. Enter the "ancient warrior" theme: supposedly they have some magic potion that will cure him but it's buried somewhere deep in the mines. His son, played by Andy Mackenzie, tries hard to be a Mike or Kirk Douglas clone but only manages to come across as badass and bad actor. A chunky Daniel Baldwin plays Columbu's best friend and fellow mercenary who calls the boys (and girl) together to help Franco stop the nefarious Lynch and Mackenzie. Iris Peynado looking like the latest release from a dog kennel plays the vixenish, somewhat asexual psychic who is aiding Lynch. The movie moves at an incredibly lethargic pace, the fight scenes are staged very amateurishly and the whole thing is really an embarassment to all involved. I don't think ancient warriors themselves could have saved this catastrophic misfire.