Product Details

• Actors: Greg Evigan, Garrett Sato
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: February 21, 2006
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CRR3LU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,962 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Cerberus" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A madman steals the breast-plate of Attila the Hun in order to find the sword of Mars which is guarded by the three-headed dog Cerberus.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-MAY-2007
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "Terrible" is an understatement., September 16, 2007

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Andariel Halo "Disillusioned Smark" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cerberus (DVD)

Being as this was a Sci-Fi original movie, and Sci-Fi Channel's reputation for churning out these kind of crappy movies all the time, I didn't expect much in the way of special effects quality or acting quality. But the end result was too much of a joke to even dismiss as "It's so bad it's good".


The plot is a convoluted mess failing to properly mix elements of Greek mythology, Hunnic history, and Christianity in an abortion of a myth involving a Celtic-looking Attila digging up a rusty sword and making an offering to Satan to make him a god and make his sword make him invincible. For some reason, Satan has Cerberus guard the sword and Attila's corpse in hell.

Then it extends into modern times, with a plot so poorly thought out using modern ideas like "nukes" and ransoming nations and drinking beer, you can't help but think someone here was fired from making spaghetti action films in the early 90s. A rich Asian man hires some empty-headed Americans to steal Attila's breastplate (which amounts to a thin sheet of metal so flimsy it could shatter at any moment) from a museum in some foreign country (as noted by their 'foreign accents'). Because of one of the idiotic American's trigger-happiness, an important potential hostage is killed, and so they have to kidnap another woman and her brother and use them to get to Attila's sword.


What little believable plot is left at this point simply fades away as it turns out this Asian guy mysteriously has a stockpile of nuclear weapons and yet plans on using the sword to threaten nations. The American mercenary who gets the sword starts acting like a drunken idiot, spouting the worst cliche' lines in history and randomly attacking people in some Transylvanian village tavern.


The actors are some of the worst pack you're likely to find outside of pornography, and the dialogue would make some porno movies look like Oscar-worthy performances. Most of the character's lines, especially the Americans, consist of terrible cliche's like "who let the dog out?" and such exchanges about Greek myth like:

American Woman: Orpheus tamed Cerberus using a lyre.
American Doofus: Don't look at me!


HAHAHA! STUPID PUNS!

The special effects are terrible, the ending horribly done, and all in all it was a bad way to spend a lonely Sunday afternoon in the middle of September.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cerberus, January 13, 2007

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Double D "Double D" (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cerberus (DVD)

Plot: Steal the sword of Attilla the Hun...unleash a 3-headed dog(made of BAD CGI) to wreak havoc amongst a village in the hills of BFE...bring in good guy and good girl to save the day...

OK, my take on this...

not really a BAD movie...typical plot line...BAD CGI...definitely not worth the $24 to spend on it...I can think of a LOT of other things to spend $24 bucks on...good for maybe 1/2 price rental...

but I actually did like it...would have been better if it had GOOD CGI...goes down as a "good" movie after drinking a few beers late at night

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Underdog(s), October 27, 2010

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Michael J. Tresca "Talien" (Fairfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cerberus (DVD)

When Ray Harryhausen created Clash of the Titans, his monster plans included Cerberus, the three-headed dog. Animating three heads was a mammoth task for the stop-motion animators, so Harryhausen changed Cerberus to Dioskilos, Greek for two-headed dog - an unnecessary name change as Cerberus has also been depicted with just two heads. The monster's attack, which lasts a few minutes in Clash of the Titans, is still better than this Syfy original about Attila the Hun's Sword of Mars.

What, you expected a movie to be about the titular monster? It appears that Cerberus guards said sword and that whomever wields it becomes invincible. A maniac with a sword isn't very scary by today's standards, so the film does back flips to connect the villain searching for the sword (Garret Sato as Kul Jae Sung) with nuclear weapons. It seems Sung is an ex-North Korean general with some nukes and he's not afraid to use them. A U.S. team of agents, led by Jake Addams (Sebastian Spence), are on a mission to stop Sung from getting the sword, lest it unbalance his fragile state of mind so much that he chooses to use the nukes.

Follow that? It's pretty clear that since Sung has such delicate sensibilities, the agents' job is to keep him from having a bad day: Mission to Keep Sung's Shower Hot, the Mission so Sung Doesn't Get Too Many Stoplights on His Way to Work, and the Mission to Assassinate that Guy Who Didn't Say "Thank You" he Sneezed and Sung Said "Bless You." They must be really busy.

When head thug and U.S. turncoat Marcus Cutter (Greg Evigan) botches the acquisition of a different Attila artifact, Dr. Samanta Gaines (the gorgeous Emmanuelle Vaugier) is unwittingly pulled into this game of cat and also cat. To make matters worse, her idiot brother Zach (Brent Florence mumbling along) is taken hostage.

Throughout Cerberus is a smug streak where director and writer John Terlesky dares you to question the film's logic. Much dialogue is dedicated to justifying Attila's sword (it's true, there really was a Sword of Mars), how Attila was part of Roman mythology (partially true) and why Cerberus guards it (not true). The movie conflates Hell with Hades, substitutes a gothic-style modern sword for Attila's ancient blade, and generally hopes you're not paying attention to much of what's going on because if you stare at Cerberus funny the whole thing falls apart.

But we came to see a giant three-headed dog eat people, right? Cerberus falls flat in the monster department. One of the most unsettling things about Dioskilos was the barking of two dogs at different times. Put quite simply, you could close your eyes and know that the thing had two heads. Cerberus can't even get that right - we just get one loud bark. What we do get is what looks a bit like Scrappy Doo bounding awkwardly along. At least this Cerberus has a snake tail.

The problem is that the majority of the film isn't about Cerberus. It's about the invincible Cutter killing, raping, and pillaging his way through the local town. Cerberus can only be slain by the Sword of Mars (of course) so it's up to our hero to grapple the sword away from Cutter and kill the beast.

Cerberus is a monster movie that is rightfully ashamed of its monster. Which still leaves Dioskilos as top dog(s).