Absolutely the worst movie.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Jason Momoa has eked out a career in playing Alpha Males such as Khal Drogo and very soon as Aquaman. In 2011 he gave us his take on Robert E Howard's creation, a certainly more witty take than many would expect. That is not to say this one does not racks up a body count on a quest of revenge against those whose who wiped out his village. Director Marcus Nispel keeps the film to a brisk pace with a succession of fast moving action set pieces. Stephen Lang makes for a hissable bad guy while Rose McGowan plays his creepy daughter who are on a quest to bring their witch wife/mother back from the dead. Rachel Nichols plays a character who might have been played as the typical damsel in distress if were not for the fact that she can handle herself in a fight. 2011's Conan the Barbarian may not be high art but it is more than entertaining.

Apparently those who have not actually read and enjoyed the original Robert E. Howard stories are responsible for this film's incomprehensibly and unfairly underrated status. It's far superior to the earlier attempts and much truer to Howard's characterization. As a film it's also superior to such bloated and underwhelming projects as "Prince of Persia" and "Gods of Egypt" which were little more than boring big-screen video games with non-existent or nonsensical plots. The abundant action proceeds briskly and the film looks stunning. It's an excellent introduction to the Conan character with Jason Mamoa doing the barbarian proud. Unfortunately it's generating more fans from the DVD release than it did while during its theatrical run, which is probably going to preclude more of the Conan stories being filmed, on this scale at least.

There is one big problem with this film - its title. If this was called Kilgoth the Swordsman, it would have done a lot better. But as Conan, everyone is going to compare it to the 1982 movie - even worse, its going to be compared with the 1982 movie viewed with eyes of nostalgia. Momoa is certainly a talkier Conan than Swartzenegger ever was. His acting, like the acting of all, isn't actually all that bad; and, nostalgia be damned, I think Momoa was better than Swatzenegger was in 82. Everyone was let down by the script though which should have been a lot better. Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (the writers) are just not that good and even good actors can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Another problem is the number of henchmen that Khalar Zym has. Including his daughter, there has to be about eight of them that all have to get their screen time looking badass and then get killed by Conan. I understand that young actors need to get experience but this just seems like a production line. Finally, there is the plot - thanks again Donnelly and Oppenheimer. As far as I can piece it together, Khalar Zym's wife was a powerful sorceress but before she could rule the world with her husband and turn him into a god, she was captured and burned at the stake while he watched. He then heard the rumours of this mask that brings back the dead, the pieces being held by the various barbarian tribes that killed the guy that last used it - so Zym goes on a big quest beating up and then recruiting barbarians (don't know how that works) to get the mask back. The last piece is in Conan's village and Conan's dad, decides not to join so dies but saves his some. Meanwhile Zym, spends 20 years looking for the pure blood of someone, which naturally enough turns out to belong to a hot girl; while Conan levels up and spends the same time looking for Zym. Strange that they both find each other at the same time and Conan ends up with the girl, so Zym has to come to him. Despite all this, it is sort of entertaining with the large number of action sequences one expects from this sort of film. It's fun for an evening where you have nothing to do and don't want something deep.

Conan The Barbarian in 3D is one of those films that you wish you could just forget that it ever happened but it happened. Jason Momoa plays Conan (kinda) and Stephen Lang is the bad guy of the story but you know the story already if you have seen the Original 1982 Classic or read the comics or even if you have played the games if you think Conan the Destroyer and Red Sonja were bad then think again because this film is awful in every step of the way. Acting, story, cgi everything is bad the movie completely lost me when they made Conan's father look like an ape and him spitting the beer in someone's else face so he can win the arm wrestle fight. It's time for Hollywood to stop remaking Schwarzenegger's Movies or even making sequels that nobody asked for.