Yuck!

Rating: 2/10 (11 April 2000)

Sometimes blood and gore are essential to the plot (for example, "Sleepy Hollow"). Sometimes they cannot be essential to the plot because there isn't really one. Unfortunately, the latter is my impression of this long, bloody, brutal, boring movie.
To be fair, the three friends with whom I saw this movie loved it. A couple of them have purchased the video or DVD. I cannot for the life of me figure out why. Perhaps if your goal is to see a head ripped completely off of a torso you can overlook the absence of things such as plot and compelling characters. Maybe it won't bother you that there are so many things that cross the line of believability (and not even in fun or imaginative ways). Maybe you won't care that this movie has the **world's most unnecessary** "romance" (and I use the term loosely) ever or that what you think is supposed to be a major obstacle to our "heroes" vanishes without a trace. If these things don't bother you and you don't mind seeing people act like animals (my apologies to real animals everywhere), then this may be just the thing for you! I just simply don't get it. The only nice thing I can say about this movie is that the horses and scenery were beautiful.
I ended up viewing the movie the way I used to watch the demolition derbies we sometimes saw when I was a kid: I chose my favorite character and rooted for him to make it through "the derby" unscathed.