Never-ending bloodbath & nightmare!

Rating: 3/10 (19 December 2001)

The promotion of this movie is a fraud. I walked into this movie believing it was a fantasy but found I was in a never-ending, 3 hour nightmare. This movie is not for children or adults of weak constitution. I can't count the number of people slaughtered but it must be in the thousands. It is so bad I am reminded of `Conan the Barbarian' but at least with that movie I expected it. The endless decapitations and severed appendages are truly disturbing. Beyond the carnage are the truly horrible scenes of monsters right out of your worst nightmare. I am sure many people who see it will have nightmares for years to come. But the biggest disappointment of all is that it does not come to a conclusion  it just abruptly ends leaving you with the dilemma of suffering through the next two installments to see the conclusion. This is something I will never do. There is one saving grace and that is that it is well made and well acted. Unfortunately, this cannot overcome the nightmare.