Connery is good in his role, but it's basically a long cameo for which he got co-star billing. Clancy Brown is appropriately mean, nasty, and lecherous, as the Kurgan. The movie has some really nice camera moves, though a few of them seem to be there for the sake of artiness and end up getting in the way, and the production values are pretty good considering that this appears to have been a fairly low budget affair. And Queen's music, which is very typically Queen and therefore very good, also seems out of place, much like it did in Flash Gordon. The restoration isn't up to the quality of other restorations, and the use of the THX standards proves that, as good as it is, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Video quality is spotty, from very grainy at times to merely very good.
The audio soundtrack has been remixed into Dolby Digital and it sounds good, though it's a touch muddy in places and was obviously originally recorded using analog technology. Still, they tried, and they put their money where their mouths are and that's a good thing. They even stuck an extra eight minutes or so of footage that had been cut from the film's original US release. This latter extra reminds us of the golden days of laserdisc, when companies like the Criterion Collection would include these frame by frame looks at various aspects of a movie. There's also the original trailer, of course, and a brief liner note about the restoration.