Red Sonja

Those long muscular legs, those huge heaving breasts... Oh Arnold!!

It's unfortunate that there are moments when the acting of the 3 leads really is bad (& only made worse by the accents) because it taints the rest of the film & the rest is good. First, the varied production design by Danilo Donati (Flash Gordon) is amazing. The evil queen's throne room is one of the most striking fantasy locations I've ever seen & Fleisher makes the most of it. The natural locations & cinematography are also stunning & the action well done for its time.

Brainless but fun barbarian hack-n-slash action. I'm a sucker for anything with scantily clad chicks with swords. Ernie Reyes Jr can fuck right off, though.

it's been so long since i've seen this, i had forgotten just how awesomely bad it is. it has arnold schwarzenegger romancing a woman with a mullet. if that isn't enough to get you on board, no one can help you.

Awful movie riding on the coattails of the successful two Conan movies. The sets aren't as impressive as in Conan, the plot isn't either, the dialog is bad plus it has the bad sequel requirement of the stupid side kick in the form of an annoying kung-fu prince (which I find hilarious because this isn't really a direct sequel). It's completely missable. I think the real cherry on top is that Sonja's hair looks really dumb.

"Red Sonja" is just another Conan movie only made to be more kid friendly and thus completely devoid of everything that made Conan great. I'm absolutely baffled at who thought Nielsen should be a leading lady, but there was a brief three year period where she was mildly attractive and this is one of your few opportunities to see it.

Even Arnold claims it was a really bad movie, but it's actually a lot of fun.

Pretty terrible sword and sorcery sequel to Arnold's earlier successes. This was a bad idea all around and the "romance" scenes were absolutely hilarious. All in all this is forgettable but if you're an Arnold completionist it's worth a watch if you have a sense of humor.

Oy! Let's have some wine to go with this cheese.

This movie is a very strange experience because it is kind of like some bad amateur theatre company has somehow convinced Ennio fucking Morricone to do the score to a play they are putting on which has been written by some horny member of the troupe. However, this movie has a ton of hilarious B-movie camp value and I can't help but like it. Special fun comes in the form of Brigitte and Arnold's dueling accents.

You know you're in trouble when Schwarzenegger is sidekicking for Brigitte Nielsen!

Arnold and Brigitte Nielsen talking to each other in this is like two analogue chatbots translating two separate languages into English.

{assable and the pacing is a bit brisker than usual for the genre, but when Brigitte Nielsen is the highpoint performance you know you've got issues. The main narrative arc is acceptable enough, but every detail and scene that should flesh it out only renders things more incomprehensible. It does, at points, manage to be entertaining for the sheer absurdity of some of the scenes, but it can't keep that up for more than a few minutes at a time.

Sandahl Bergman has little presence, and veteran director Fleischer just phones it in.

Does it count if my review is retrospective? Like, from the perspective of a 7 year old boy? I remember watching this, thinking 'its great it's like Conan' and then Schwarzer turning up halfway through, destroying my mind.

Loved this as a kid...Not so much as an adult..

Movie should have been all about Arnold. Then it'd have been awesome. Arnold doesn't lose to a woman, or even fight a woman to a standstill. He fucking rapes them.

One point allocated for the sets/matte paintings, another for Brigitte Nielsen’s body - other than that this the most moldy and reheated swords ‘n sorcery leftovers. The Lunchables to Conan the Barbarian 82’s fine dining.

None of this would matter if Red Sonja was the least bit exciting, or sexy, or even funny. Instead, it`s lumbering, oddly prim and laughable.

Arnie as not-Conan is reduced to a sidekick, while Nielsen provides one of the most jaw-droppingly wooden performances. I'm convinced she hadn't learned English when this was filmed, and was simply reading her lines phonetically. So much is bad - the acting, the plot, that one scene with the mechanical sea monster that seems to last half the movie, the evil bitch-queen who thought she was auditioning for Dynasty. Ugh, no.

I was about 10 when I first saw this movie and it was GREAT! Now, I don't want to watch it, becouse I have good memories about it and I don't want to spoil that.

A bunch of costumed jerks stand around delivering lines and breaking out into spontaneous sword fights. Pretty awful.

Robert E Howard rose from the grave to inform the world that he wanted his name removed from the credits of this film.

Stupid plot, but with Arnie giving a knowing comment occasionally, it's bearable.

"I have fought 177 men and only one survived. And he has no legs." - some guy in this awful movie

Female Conan the Barbarian... hes even the main image on the packaging. genuinely bad but i would still watch it on a rainy day.

Red Sonja takes another Robert E. Howard story and instead of putting Arnold in the forefront we have Brigitte Nielsen in the lead of this film, even though Arnold is given top billing. I admit that I gave this movie some bonus points for just being an 80's action flick but overall I wasn't impressed with this movie. There was some good action and I liked the final fight of the movie but there just wasn't enough meat here for me to want to watch it again. Yea for 80's girl power though.

Limp CONAN imitator at least looks terrific (with particularly sumptuous set-costume design), but feels like an awkward compromise between childish fantasy and a more brutal action extravaganza. Arnie has still not quite perfected his action man persona at this point, delivering an impassive, almost bored performance at times, and Nielsen makes little to no impression as a leading lady. Nice to have Lacey and Smith around in support to spice things up a bit.

I knew it was going to be silly and campy and I got exactly that. I just had a great time with this movie. Even if I hoped that Red Sonja wouldn't have needed so much saving and would have taken more initiative of her own at times, I still thought her character was great. It's just too bad that at the time people didn't think that this story could have just rested solely on Sonja's shoulders and worked great like that.

Viewed December 9, 2021. It's hilarious just how many scenes revolve around Arnold picking up a very heavy object.

Schwarzenegger is good...

Rerun of Conan story. Now from the famle heroness point of view.

I'm almost convinced the woman who played Sonja was actually a robot.

Though not much dialogue, the action and sets are well worth your time.

F

It's so bad but I enjoyed it, I have no idea why.

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I first saw this movie when I was about 4 and revisiting it, I'm surprised about how much I remember. There are some very impressive, striking, memorable set pieces and the score is really great (it's Ennio Morricone for heaven's sake). That said, the movie is atrocious. The acting is truly horrible and the screenplay is at times nonsensical and anachronistic. But THAT said, this is one of the most entertaining awful movies ever made.

watchable, in a campy I know it's dumb but... kinda way

Red Hair

Crap movie.....but Brigette Nielsen at her finest.

A cheep rip off of Conan.

Ehhhhh. Eh. Casting Schwarzenegger as not-Conan was a mistake. Not a very engrossing movie, but if you watched Conan I & II and thought: "Gimme so more o that!" you'll probably want to watch this.

bad movie

1980s cinema feminism basically meant making women stronger, more dominant, more violent, more arrogant. In short - woman beats man at the game of masculinity.

Utter cobblers but watchable.