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India Press Store - The Ultimate Warrior
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Yul Brynner, Max von Sydow, Joanna Miles, William Smith, Richard Kelton
Directed By: Robert Clouse
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300269101
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300269108
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1992-04-01
Running Time: 94
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Summary: Ultimate Warrior
Comment: Just a note to all out there that I picked up a copy at Best Buy this week on a double disk Science Fiction Collection. Its out there and a pretty cool movie. Wonder why not available on Amazon.
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Summary: Post Apocalypse Worlds
Comment: An interesting film from the 1970's, part of a string of movies -- such as SOYLENT GREEN, THE OMEGA MAN, DAMNATION ALLEY, A BOY AND HIS DOG,etc. --which deal with civilization after some violent cataclysm. Yul Brynner was no spring chicken when he did this role but performs well. Max Von Sydow as the Baron (originally it was to been called THE BARONEY) delivers as a man struggling to keep the people in his charge from being overcome by the violent forces outside his compound and from extinction. Then there is Big Bill Smith. Has anyone ever played better-- and more -- crazed over the edge psychos than this son of a gun? I think not. In an interview he said that in his death scene, while rats ran over him, one actually crapped in his mouth. Now that's taking one for the team!
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Summary: Brynner is Coooooooooooool.
Comment: I picked up this movie on VHS and hadn't seen it since I was a kid. I must say that I still like the movie. Some of that may be a nostalgia thing and some of it is simply because of Yul Brynner being super cool and also William Smith as the menacing villian. Max Von Sydow is also one of my favorite actors. But I must say this movie looks like an early 70's made for TV movie. The settings look really fake and like they are on the studio lot and a stock city setting. Some of the acting is also just horrible. But the top three guys make it worth watching and if you are a fan of this time period and this genre I think you will like this film.
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Summary: I love this film because of William Smith
Comment: I love this film. While somewhat disjointed at times, truly some bad editing, it is one of those guilty pleasures, at least one of mine anyway. When I first saw it I was smitten with the actor who played the villian Carrot, William Smith, who is a very under appreciated actor, and have been a fan ever since. Max Von Sydow is also good as Baron and gives a performance that makes you feel sorry for the position he's in.
Don't get me wrong I like Yul Brynner, I saw him onstage in the King and I back in the early eighties, but director Robert Clouse did not write the role of Carson for him so to me he is completely out of his element with this role. he just does not embrace the part and I think the film might have done better had Warner Brothers cast someone else in the part.
Overall this film laid some of the ground work for later films of this type, including "Mad Max." If you watch it please do it to see William Smith he is great in this part and it is one of his best villian roles.
I'd love to see this released on DVD with extras.
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Summary: Just release the bloody DVD already..
Comment: By the time they stop the legal wrangling anyone interested in this film will be dead.
And yes it is an interesting film...but where is the DVD? They must be having a real ball with the pathetic legal dispute that is hobbling the release. Why not transfer the original on to DVD, see how it fares and then squabble over the dollars? The film has a solid story, good actors (hey, there's Yul Brynner and Max Von Sydow working it as hard as they can). The director, Robert Clouse, creates an authentic nuclear winter look and employs his skills as an action / actor's director to give gravitas to a Twilight Zone type story. It needs to be out there and in widescreen because some of these "B movies" offer something new films don't - personality and originality.
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