Conan the Destroyer

Richard Fleischer’s Conan the Destroyer takes the weird, primal, and solidly written pulp by Robert E. Howard and turns it into something lesser, more of a generic fantasy pulp adventure. And you know what? I’m kind of okay with it. It doesn’t even attempt the operatic heights of John Milius’ precursor film, despite the reuse of Basil Poledouris’ score, instead choosing to be a fetch quest, there and back again tale with only perfunctory efforts at character, all while making it a bit (hones...