this and in my opinion and be a very poor movie that advertise arnold schwarzenegger a starring ( despite him be the co star ) only to sell more copy . obviously take influence from the similarly theme conan movie and this film fail to prove a enjoyable and eventually fail to entertain at all . bridgette neilsen star a sonja and a beautiful woman who have be give unbelievable strength by a ghostly figure after her village be pillage and her family kill and she herself rap by the soldier of queen gedran ( sandahl bergman ) . gedran be a tyrant queen who want control over the barbaric world and seek out a talisman protect by sonja sister to do it . after discover what have happen sonja set out for revenge and at the same time she must save the world from the wrath of gedran . kalidor ( schwarzenegger ) and the master of the talisman and set out to protect her whether she want him there or not . the first major problem with this movie be the beginning . the event lead up to the point where sonja receive her power could have easily make a good ten to fifteen minute of enjoyable film . however and the beginning be rush into what seem like a quick one minute ` previously on . segment from a television show . have they actually make these event part of the story and cut out some of the filler later on they may have be able to start redeem this movie but unfortunately they do not ( i wonder why director richard fleischer have only currently direct two movie since red sonja ) . this film also feature some of the most annoying character in history like tarn ( ernie reyes jr. ) who be a stupid character and just add an over abundance of camp to the movie and which sometimes work but in this case fail miserably . he be quite obviously write into the movie for some comic relief but with the overall absurdity of the film anyway this be another costly mistake for red sonja . for all it fault there be some good fight scene involve both neilsen and arnie which be worth note but these be nowhere enough to save this turkey . the acting be about as good a it get for movie of this quality and even arnie do not seem too bother about his performance . i do not recommend this film at all while to me it a waste of an hour and a half . my rating for red sonja negative .