Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

unbrokenmetal Deathstalker (John Terlesky) is not a real hero, but rather a reckless rogue who fights only as long as it is fun, and his only ambition is to marry a rich princess some day. He meets Reena (Monique Gabrielle) who claims she can see the future in her crystal ball, but the results are not convincing. However, she also tells him she is a princess, and once the evil sorcerer Jarek (John La Zar) is out of the way, she might sit on the throne, rightfully. Before they face Reena's enemy, the queen of the amazons (Maria Socas, I recognized her from 'The Warrior and the Sorceress') has a special challenge for Deathstalker: wrestling a fat amazon to the death...'Deathstalker II' is a comedy in the first place, the dialogs are hilarious! Actually, 'Deathstalker II' doesn't look like a sequel to 'Deathstalker' at all. 'Deathstalker IV' had Rick Hill return as the hero, 'Deathstalker III' was at least written by the same scriptwriter, but in 'Deathstalker II' there is no personal continuity with the first movie. Which is probably a good thing, because this comedy within the series works very well as a movie of its own.

Scarecrow-88 "Deathstalker?! Is that your first name or last name?"Deathstalker(John Terlesky), a mighty..snicker..gallant..snicker, snicker..warrior, aids a delicious little piece of eye candy, Reena the Seer(Monique Gabrielle, who looks good enough to eat)in regaining her kingdom, besieged by the villainous sorcerer Jarek(..played by a sneering John Lazar, with just the right pinch of arrogance)who has cloned a "duplicate" Princess Evie, who feeds cannibalistically on her servants and guards(!) provided to keep her appetite quenched. At the opening of the film, Deathstalker steals a jewel from Sultana(Toni Naples), who announces the film to the viewer, after she vows revenge. Sultana will assist Jarek in a mission to kill Reena and give Evie the kingdom..Evie needs Reena dead because she's slowly fading, for some reason. Anyway, Deathstalker agrees to help Reena, manipulated into partaking the mission at the idea of fame and fortune(..not knowing he's being duped into helping Reena get her kingdom back for she has concealed her identity as the princess, taking on the fortune-telling gig as a disguise). The rest of this flick has them facing all types of peril(..oooo..ahhhh...) including Deathstalker's wrestling match with an Amazonian female behemoth(..gasp..to the death) because the female tribe he and Reena were captured by condemn his womanizing ways! Maria Socas is the Queen of this tribe, and yet another easy-on-the-eyes casting choice by the filmmakers..you have to know the demographic this is aiming at, eh? Deathstalker also faces other traps, like one inside a mausoleum where Jarek has designed a wall of spikes coming towards him as Reena faces off with a horde of zombies. Reena hangs over a cauldron as Deathstalker has to come to her rescue while trying to defeat Sultana in a swordfight. You have a finale at the Princess' castle as the Amazonian women tribe, who decide to help Deathstalker and Reena after all, assist them in a fight against Jarek and his guards while Evie plans to kill her "sister".Director Wynorski operates with NRN:No Restraint Necessary. This is a complete send up of the "swords, sandals, and sorcery" genre that was successful at the time. Tongue just isn't firmly in cheek..it's wagging. And, as expected in a film from Jim Wynorski, you get plenty of tits. Monique Gabrielle doesn't try to act and knows the film is ridiculous so she just plays along with the material as does Terlesky as the mugging hero, all chiseled smiles. Neither hides the fact that they're in a silly film..this will, no doubt, drive some people up the wall(..I can't say I'd blame them, but I knew what I was getting into and the opening minutes lets you know the brand of entertainment in store for the viewer the rest of the way.). I watched this nonsense in the right frame of mind so it went over without a hitch. Naples and Socas are merely eye-candy, as is Gabrielle who looks fantastic, even if she's not exactly the greatest on-screen performer in the world. The very definition of a guilty pleasure..some will find it incredibly annoying, but I just took it with a grain of salt and had a good time. I swear that "whishing" sound effects as swords move in combat, sound like something out of the "Masters of the Universe" cartoon. Whoever choreographed those sword fighting scenes, must have done it for free(..and especially the bar fighting scene and cave fighting opening scene)because they don't look that convincing to me..perhaps, like the rest of the film, Wynorski is winking at us that this flick isn't supposed to be convincing, but pure schlock. If that was his intent, constantly winking at us, he succeeded.

Witchfinder General 666 "Deathstalker" of 1983 was an incredibly crappy movie, but in its own way incredibly entertaining and fun to watch, simply due to its value as an unintentional comedy. The first sequel, "Deathstalker II: Duel Of The Titans" of 1987 almost seems to be a spoof of its predecessor. As the first movie, "Deathstalker 2" is again extremely crappy and therefore quite funny, but it seems that director Jim Wynorski as well as the actors and everybody else connected with this film were actually willing to do a movie as crappy as possible on purpose. While the Deathstalker was basically a brutal and invincible Barbarian cheapo version of Conan played by muscleman Rick Hill in the first movie, the title character became a skinny guy with a tendency towards stupid jokes. The dialogue is even sillier and out of place than in the first movie ("a cigar for the lady", "is that your sword or are you just happy to see me"...), the acting is (intentionally?) terrible and hardly anything in the movie makes sense.The movie is set in some fantasy land and fantasy time that seems lie an in-between of the middle ages and the stone age. The fact that the people are clearly pagans, of course, doesn't stop graves on cemeteries from having crosses on them. At one point of the movie a warrior explains that he had fought under Attila The Hun's command, while his buddy has served for Ghenghis Khan. The fact that Attila The Hun died over 700 years before Ghenghis Kahn was even born is, of course, ignored. Scenes like these, and other oddities, should keep the viewer entertained. "Deathstalker II" also features an Amazon tribe and warriors with human bodies and pig heads (one of those was my favorite character in the first film). Some of the women are lovely to look at, especially Monique Gabrielle, who plays the female lead, and Maria Socas, who plays the Amazon Queen, are a treat for the eye. One of the main aims of "Deathstalker II" is to show breasts (although not quite as often as the first film), but sadly it fails to achieve the amount of gore featured in its predecessor. All said, "Deathstalker II" is an extremely crappy movie, but great fun to watch. I recommend to watch the first "Deathstalker" before watching this, and I personally laughed more during the first film, but I guess it doesn't quite make a difference. People with a sense of humor and able to bear a bit of awfulness should certainly have a good time, 3/10

HaemovoreRex The first Deathstalker was a rather sombre, dull affair featuring a distinctly immoral and somewhat unlikeable 'hero' who thought nothing of forcing himself upon women and killing for the sheer hell of it.Much of the film felt hideously disjointed and made little or no sense (other than to show busty topless maidens...erm...OK, so it wasn't all bad in other words) Overall, the film could only really be described as a sub par Conan rip off at best. Certainly not a movie that warranted a sequel......but, I am in fact very glad that a sequel came along, as what we have here is one of those rarest of cinematic phenomena, a sequel that actually surpasses the original. Although to be truthful in this case it doesn't merely surpass it, but totally eclipses it!Deathstalker 2 is effectively the polar opposite of the first film. Whereas the original Deathstalker seemed to take itself deadly seriously (which was a grave mistake) this sequel actually plays more like an out and out comedy.Now I know that genre purists may scoff at the idea of a Sword & Sorcery comedy, and if it's any consolation, I initially (before viewing the film) did to, but believe me, this movie works so well!In fact, EVERYTHING works so well in this film!The actors are all clearly having a ball with the material (especially John Terlesky in the title role), the ladies are all universally gorgeous and mostly seem more than happy to wander around topless (a staple ingredient in the genre), the main villain hams it up perfectly, there's a really great, catchy music score and the final climatic sword fight between Deathstalker and his nemesis is very well staged!What more could you ask for?I recommend this awesome movie wholeheartedly - it's fun is more infectious than VD in a brothel!