Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Inmechon The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

dgrolin This movie suffers on a number of counts. The most obvious is that the lead actress (Nichole Hiltz) was ill-suited for a period piece. I am sure she would be well cast in a teen movie set in a modern high-school or some such. Jennifer Rubin would likely have brought the gravitas necessary to make the character more believable. Unfortunately, this miscasting of the lead role covers over a number of fair if not stellar performances by some of the secondary cast, such as Melanie Gutteridge's portrayal of the sister. Another problem is the poor script. The story is, by and large, predictable and the dialog falls flat and fails to give the sense of verisimilitude. Great acting can sometimes overcome poor scripts and poor acting can be overcome with an excellent script. Fail to provide either, inevitably leads to a poor overall experience; which unfortunately is what one gets from this movie.

L. Denis Brown This little sexploitation film, which was presumably designed for TV and direct to video release, has already secured two pages of comments, many of them very erudite, from IMDb users who say all that needs to be said about the film itself. The comments fall into two groups, viewers who fully recognised what it was about and settled down to enjoy it just for what it provided seem to have rated it very generously, but a larger group appear to have expected a poor man's "Gladiator" and to have rejected it totally when they realized this was not what they were viewing. Currently IMDb user ratings show peaks at both 10 and 1 - this is an interesting although not unique situation, but my sympathies (although not my judgment in so far as any rating near ten is concerned) lie entirely with the first group. I find it very hard to understand how any viewers would have had expectations of watching an historically viable film, rather than what is so clearly a work of fiction that has been set in a recognisable historic period.Historically we are only very gradually beginning to learn something about the legendary female warriors we know as Amazons. Early European settlers followed a largely matriarchal form of society in which women took a prominent role; but these were later often absorbed by incoming Indo-European tribes, who traditionally gave women a much more subservient role. Archaeology largely replaces history for this period but these two very different cultures intermingled for a long period before many of the matriarchal groups were absorbed by the dominant Indo-Europeans and there is general recognition that many of the matriarchal groups resisted male dominance to the point of migrating and fighting for their independence. The Greek legends about Amazons, a name possibly coming from the Greek "a mazos" (without breast), appear to relate to groups which settled in Asia Minor as female warrior tribes that played a significant role in very early history, but these were almost certainly wiped out long before they could become entangled with the legions of the Roman Empire. There has been a great deal of controversy about the legend that they cut off the right breast of their female children to enhance their future capabilities as adult fighters. Given the medical standards of the time, this would almost certainly have been a fatal procedure and it has therefore been discounted by most historians - which has unfortunately led some of them to discount all reports about even the existence of such female warriors. However Hippocrates has described in some detail how this was not a surgical procedure but was the result of applying an iron hot enough to inhibit normal anatomical breast development to female babies whilst very young in order to encourage the muscular development of their right arm. This is quite compatible with the many early legends (and even semi-historical reports) of Valkyrie like one breasted female warriors who were active in Asia Minor, probably until shortly after the founding of Troy - long before Rome was founded or Gladiators appeared. I am not a student of archaeology but I have read somewhere that at least one archaeologist claims to have discovered a bronze 'branding iron' device the right size and shape to have been used for this purpose. Other IMDb users could probably provide more accurate information about this.Even ignoring the dates, the idea of such a tribe of female warriors encountering and disrupting a force of almost invincible Roman warriors should provide great fun whether it is presented as a novel or as a film - neither should be expected to have any pretensions to being historical, and rejecting either for historical errors is I feel only laughable. But, certainly in the case of the film, part of the appeal the promoters would depend upon for recovering their investment would involve transmuting the Valkyrie like warriors into attractive (and probably scantily clad) young women that young male viewers would enjoy watching and young female viewers would wish to emulate. Clearly therefore any legends about disfigurements intended to enhance fighting performance would be forgotten - we are in the realm of neither history nor mythology - but straight fiction. Judged on this basis, I would regard this film as a very commendable 'B' movie, distinctly superior to many of its genre. Comparisons with 'Gladiator', which has pretensions to being a historically based film, cannot be made in any meaningful way. But I very much preferred 'Amazons and Gladiators', because it showed much more ongoing character development than was allowed by the pointless and unceasing violence in 'Gladiator', and could even be regarded as providing role models for young women who feel they are being exploited and victimised by the society in which they live. Further reasons for this preference can be found in my user comments on 'Gladiator' in this database.IMDb does not list any alternative versions for this film, but there appear to be two very different versions. I saw it on Public TV in a 90 minute PG version totally without nudity, but the large screen version was given an R rating for nudity, and both IMDb users and external reviewers have commented that many topless extras were featured. Although this may explain wide differences in the ratings received from IMDb users, the large number of one ratings seems inexplicable. What do these reviewers do when they see a really bad film? I would have rated it at five, but this led me to award it a marginally justified six.

heroineworshipper The three forces in the universe, in order of strength, are the force that bonds magnets together, the force that bonds protons together, and the force of heroine warrior worshipping energy you feel while watching Amazons & Gladiators, a film by Beyond Films, MBP films and Drotcroft Ltd. Apparently raising enough money to make a movie about heroine warriors takes 3 studios.Men have long waited for a movie about the Amazons, a movie which portrays Amazons as independant, intelligent, freedom fighting warriors instead of senile monsters like in Land of the Prehistoric Women. This one has good sights of heroines wielding swords, heroines wearing armor, heroines lifting heavy objects, heroines stabbing abusive dictators. If the same movie was made with Jodie Foster, Demi Moore, Ali Larter, or Radha Mitchell, had a bigger budget, a better script, better lighting, better acting it might have been one of the best heroine movies ever.Unfortunately, there's only acting in the academic sense. The characters wear costumes, read lines, and sometimes move around.You're better off watching it with the sound off. All the shots are closeups of a tree, building, or fighting ring. There's no wide shot of the Amazon homeland, a Colosseum, or a palace. The weather is consistently dreary. The production is so bad, you might think anyone sitting through this movie was insane but undoubtedly many flat broke, unmarried, male breadwinning gene deprived, SUV impaired men have watched it over and over.

shutupyou14 This movie is absolutely terrible, anyone who likes it should be shot. Wait, there is no one who likes it, thus negating the threat of the shooting of any demon spawn of satan who should per chance come along and happen to enjoy this aborted fetus of a movie. Not being able to stop the creation of this monstrousity of a movie negates the entire purpose of my life, and exemplifies all that is wrong with the world. This movie makes me believe that the terrorists have indeed won. Now that we are done ranting about how terrible this movie is, we must describe it in 3 short sentences. 1. Girl stabs man with blade that randomly appears from a candlestick. 2. Girl fights man, girl has sex with man, girl speaks with man whilst sleeping, girl watches man die after being shot with arrows. 3. Girl smites evil man, who had smote her beloved family and tribe of scantilly clad whores. Throw in random scenes of naked women bathing a fat man in a bathhouse and this is the entire movie. People who have given this movie greater than a 1 rating must have their fingers cut off and their foreheads branded with the mark of Satan. This necessitates the need of a possible zero rating in the rating system.This movie caused people to hear their neghbors dog commanding them to kill people, write helter skelter on peoples walls in blood, and to send letter bombs to universities. Fin.