The new project of the director Markus Nispel, created in 3D, despite the presence of all the components of success in the action movie genre: the abundance of blood, a detailed demonstration of violent scenes - according to world film critics, is significantly inferior to the legendary film of the 80s with a cult personality, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the main role.
Sequel
“Conan the Barbarian” 2011 (front-end actors: D. Momoa, S. Lang, R. Nichols, R. McGone) begins as a true gift for lovers of the genre: an aggressive teenager (actor Leo Howard) with a possessed gaze, a wolf cub runs through the forest ahead of more sluggish tribesmen, and having met the painted natives, famously chopped their heads. One gets the impression that a few more minutes of timing, and the film with Schwarzenegger will sink into oblivion, they will remember him only in a historical context. But the feeling is deceiving. "Conan the Barbarian" - 2011, the actors and roles of which were selected to each other during a long and controversial casting, according to the cinema community, inferior to the original film. It has a lot of long, tiring dialogues, which are diluted with simply copied from scenes by outstanding contemporary directors, therefore, the art bar raised by the eyeballs of the movie unstoppably falls down. It is no coincidence that the film has a film critic rating of IMDb: 5.20, and a 1982 John Milius tape - IMDb: 6.90.
The plot of the new version of the well-deserved action
The film "Conan the Barbarian" (2011), the actors and the roles of which were selected according to the types with the direct participation of co-producer John Baldecci, has a generally known plot, praising the valor of more than once embodied on the screen, praised by animation and cinema, which became the hero of computer games an ancestor of hundreds of similarities characters - the great Cimmerian. The protagonist of the Cimmerian Conan (actor Jason Momoa) was born in the heat of battle. His father Korin (actor Ron Perlman) was forced to have his wife a Caesarean section in order to save the life of an unborn child.
By nature, the boy was endowed with remarkable strength. His growing up was truly harsh. Once an army of ruthless warriors came into their settlement under the leadership of the necromancy-obsessed leader Halar Zima (actor Stephen Lang). He is looking for the last fragment of the Sacred Mask to subjugate the evil spirits enclosed in it and enslave the whole world. After the leader’s daughter Marika (actress Rose McGone) finds the longed-for shard, strangers kill all the Cimmerians, only Conan remains alive. Throughout his future life, the young warrior will pursue a single goal - to find and kill Halar, who is responsible for the death of Conan's father. The hero's assistant will be the charming, but not at all humble Tamara (actress Rachel Nichols).
Schwarzenegger vs Momoa
In the mood, general atmosphere, the film of Marcus Nispel is more similar to “Prince of Persia” (2010) with its embellished cheerful Disney heroism. Therefore, admirers of Jason Momoa’s talent are sad to see how the skill of a memorable and original actor is lost in the overall picture of the film “Conan the Barbarian” (2011). The actor in the title role is fundamentally different from the well-known 1982 Conan. Jason has an inimitable smile and plastic stripper, it does not have that angularity, which, unashamedly, showed a rude Austrian with a stone expression on his face. The swarthy native of Hawaii (new Conan - Momoa) gave the image an exotic look. A playfully raised eyebrow, an expressive, soulful look - all this more than pays for the absence of Arnold's bloodthirsty grin and impenetrable facial expression. Perhaps, the character performed by Momoa will seem too glossy to a particularly skeptical viewer. Otherwise, the image of the new Cimmerian does not differ from his predecessors - the stars of the 80s and the serial hero of the 90s. A brutal young man, as before, lives for his pleasure, crushing enemies, using success with women. A barbarian is a barbarian.
The core of the romantic line
"Conan the Barbarian" (2011), the cast of which is decorated with its presence, actress Rachel Nichols, who embodied the role of Tamara, shows the viewer how strained the relationship of the protagonist with the representatives of the fair half of humanity. Conan finds a common language with broken girls, charged with a fair amount of alcohol, but with a decent graduate of the monastery Tamara, the courageous Cimmerian behaves strangely, completely lost. This is another difference between the original version and the sequel "Conan the Barbarian" (2011). Actors Momoa and Nichols, unlike their characters, immediately found a common language during their participation in the production of the picture. American model and actress Nichols made her film debut in 2000, playing a cameo role in the melodrama Autumn in New York. She is known to the viewer for participating in the following films: “The Amityville Horror”, “The Dark Forest”, “The Line of Fire”. The main roles Nichols played in the films "Parking" and "Throw Cobra." In “Conan the Barbarian,” her beautiful and courageous heroine Tamara, a participant in all the fun moments available in the movie, became the core of the main romantic line in the plot story.
Promising witch
Rose McGone, an American actress of Italian origin, embodied in the film the image of the beloved daughter of the main antagonist, the witch Marika, who mutilated indiscriminately with her 25-centimeter steel nails and trying to realize her sensuality, trying to incline her father to incest. Domestic viewer in a witch will surely recognize Paige Matthew, the character played by the actress in the mystical television movie “Charmed”. The work that brought the actress a lot of all kinds of awards in the filmography of Rose is the biographical television series Elvis. McGone is also known for playing roles in the films "Scream", "Generation DOOM", "Grindhouse", "50 Dead" and, of course, "Conan the Barbarian" (2011). Rose actors-colleagues on the set have repeatedly noted her incredible charm and professionalism.
Korin and Halar Zim
The American actor Stephen Lang, who began his creative career at the Broadway Theater, played in the film one of the central roles - the main antagonist of the film Halar Zima. To date, Lang is known as the performer of the role of Colonel Miles Quaritch from Avatar by D. Cameron and for his participation in the A. Clanton film “Tumstone”. Along with filming in "Conan", the actor managed to play the role of Commander-in-Chief Nathaniel Taylor in the television movie "Terra Nova", which was also released in 2011.
Mickey Rourke was originally supposed to reincarnate as the father of the protagonist, a Cimmerian blacksmith, but the producers could not get along with the legendary star, so Korina played Ron Perlman. The American actor of dubbing, television and film is best known as the performer of the role of Hellboy in the films "Hellboy 1, 2". Most gamers know the actor as the Storyteller in the post-apocalyptic game Fallout. Among other popular paintings with his participation, “Witch Time”, “Alien 4”, “Blade 2”, “Chronicles of Mutants”, “Pacific Frontier” stand out.
In general, “Conan the Barbarian” (2011), the actors involved in the production, regarded as another successful step in their creative career and professional development.