An barbarian warrior becomes a king when he defeats a king in armed combat and the king's heir conspire to overthrow him and reclaim the throne by resurrecting an evil sorceress. Kull The Conqueror was meant to be Conan The Conqueror and it was going to star Arnold Schwarzenegger but the film never happened and instead we got this film which i can describe as awful and camp the acting is bad, the effects were awful and even the action doesn't pay off in the end and like i said before Kevin Sorbo is a pretty terrible actor and this movie shows it if you like bad 90's fantasy films watch it but if you want to see a much better film that this film copies go watch Conan The Barbarian and Conan The Destroyer both way better than this (3/10).

It's entertaining enough in spite of being pretty dumb, but I can't quite give it a good rating. I haven't seen much of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but I've seen enough to know that Kevin Sorbo's performance in that show is identical to his performance as Kull. The acting is about what you'd expect it to be in a mediocre sword & sorcery flick, Harvey Fierstein is particularly amusing. The makeup and costume design is good enough (save the final expensive Halloween decoration that is Akivasha's final incarnation), but nothing to write home about. Tia Carrere is a pretty generic antagonist, and she almost exactly repeats a line from The Empire Strikes Back - "I have altered our pact. Pray I don't alter it any further."Silly as the movie is, at least it doesn't drag with its 95 minute runtime, something several fantasy films in recent years are guilty of.

I tend to come down from my enjoyment of classical films on occasion to watch films in this sword and sorcery genre. I greatly enjoyed the first two Conan films, mostly because Arnold Schwartzenegger gave the right feel to the character of Conan. I was aggrieved and feel that he made great mistake in turning down further roles as that character, which might have been created just for him. Kevin Sorbo is well...too 1980s-1990s for the character he plays here, and I have been offended in the trend of turning legendary fantasy characters into the California surfer dude kind of creature that exists today. The one bright light in all of this is the always hilarious and way over the top Harvey Firestein as Juba. He always adds a new dimension to every film project that he is a part of. The kind of scripts that these films have are absurd to begin with. If the actors cannot immerse themselves in the characters they are playing, as was the case in this film, then it comes off as a little more than slightly ridiculous.

I didn't see Kull when it first came out, not a fan of the Hercules TV show, or all the over-ironic self-parodies of the time, save Scream. But after becoming a fan of Robert E. Howard, and reading the original Kull stories, I decided to check it out.Dare I say it, I liked it better than the John Milius Conan the Barbarian. Kull the Conquerer, parodic though it was, still used more elements from the actual Kull stories, right down to character names. Taligaro, Zareta, although no Brule, maybe they were saving him for a planned sequel. Plot elements were there as well, including the famed line 'By this Axe I rule!' The characters speak in hip modern dialogue, part of the joke. Usually, this kind of thing gets on my nerves. But thinking about it, in Howard's stories characters were always articulate. In the John Milius/Oliver Stone scripted Conan movie it was apparently decided that because the characters were barbarians they...must...speak...very...slowly. At least in Kull we have complete sentences.Kull is still a very loose adaptation, but I found myself having fun during many of the fight scenes. From what I've heard, the new Conan movie in development is to be more loyal to Robert E Howard's work. I hope so. Until then, Kull, surprising as it is, will have to do.