Advantages: An intriguing, fascinating, rather endearing piece of sword and sorcery with a wonderful soundtrack. Disadvantages: The creatures seen briefly in the haunted wood are dreadful.
...possesion of the powerful Mindsword. Hawk must bring together the 'table of five'; Gort a giant from the edge of the world, Baldun the last of the Dwarves, Crow last of the Elves and Ranulf a one handed bowman to help him rid the land of the forces of evil.
THE PRODUCTION
It may not possess the grandeur, scale and dynamics of Conan the Barbarian, but this British sword & sorcery 'epic' is fascinatingly entertaining.
The somewhat thin plot, basically ... ...between the good and rightgeous Hawk and his evil and disfigured brother Voltan, and their battle for the Mindsword.
Hawk enlists a gang of followers to aid him in his battle with Voltan's forces and the scene is set for a fight to the bitter end.
However as thin as the plot may be it couldn't be considered predictable as the story flits between set pieces and flash-backs which give a little bit of background to Hawk and Voltan's relationship. ...
paramanjara 18.07.2007
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