some film be mediocre and some film be bad and but still other film be so misconceived and poorly execute that the film maker should be embarrass of themselves . kull be exactly that film and and it more fun to laugh at it unintentional idiocy than to make any attempt to take it seriously a fantasy . at any rate the film maker also take care of that possibility by fill the sorry affair with so much contemporary humor in a pathetic attempt to imitate the formula of the hercules tv show that star the same actor who appear in this film and kevin sorbo . it do not have to be this way . king kull be one of the more interesting character create by the legendary 1930s pulp writer robert e. howard and famous for conan . howard writing have be mostly insult and degrade by these film version but this one be so awful it make conan the destroyer look like lord of the ring . it make red sonja look like jason and the argonaut . and it make conan the barbarian look like citizen kane . i actually pay to see this in the theater because i be such a big robert howard fan . it be so disappointing that i have to give it a spin on dvd just to see if it could really be as bad a i remember it . it far bad than any memory can convey . right away and you have probably the bad music i have ever hear in a film and a combination of mock wagner and mock megadeth . electric guitar on the soundtrack be an especially poor harbinger for a film supposedly set in ancient history . then you start to notice that all the character look like roadies for spinal tap and and the main villain dude have a mullet that would make billy ray cyrus jealous . so maybe it all make sense in a twisted way . apparently this be a demographic they be shoot for while perhaps they even advertise this film on wwf smack down . there no get around what limit the movie the most basically the entire cast be wrong and incompetent . kevin sorbo always seem like a nice guy and and little else . he all wrong to play a sadistic barbarian and but the film maker have solve that problem by remove all trace of kull personality and all sign that he be create by robert howard and or you could say all sign that he be create by anyone other than a market research survey group . he polite and soft spoken and respectful of woman and and he want to free all the slave . he a hero a character who have no business in a robert howard story . just once i would like to see this great writer story render in a way that isn not just to turn all the character into generic knight in shin armor . do that to his world and his character be like make a disney movie about the donner party . i can understand why a lot of people look down on write like his and because they assume it actually junk like this movie . it doesn not stop there and but i get too tire of think about it to go on . sorbo be the least of our worry in the cast actually and consider that harvey fierstein be painfully hammy ( and his character seem model on a dull character from the tv show ) and and the director seem to have think it be a good idea to give all the heavy acting scene to tia carrere . her misbegotten performance lend the movie most of it laugh factor . this movie be cheap and ugly look i would guess that they spend more money on the lame merlin miniseries in the 90 than they do on this movie which be foist on theater audience . not only that and but the director have no taste and no talent for cinema at all . everything be shoot in a bland and generic way so that none of it seem infuse with any kind of power or majesty . whatever the fault of milius original conan film and and there be many and at the very least he attempt to get the dark atmosphere of howard world right and to convey some fraction of the character fatalism . unless the new solomon kane film be a huge surprise and it will be the only example of somebody even attempt something different of this type in a fantasy movie for a long time .