My review was written in October 1989 after watching the movie on Vidmark video cassette.
Yet another "Mad Max"-styled entry, "Warlords" benefits from a tongue-in-cheek approach but is still of only limited interest to sci-fi completists.
Pic is set after a nuclear war during an uprising by mutants. David Carradine portrays a cloned vesion of a famous hero, searching for his wife (Brinke Stevens) who's in he clutches of a powerful warlord (Sid Haig).
Taking the familiar sparring twosome trek of films ranging from "Soldier Blue" to "Spacehunter", Carradine reluctantly teams up with tough babe Danny (Dawn Wildsmith, in one of her best, earthiest screen roles to date). Later they're joined by nutty Colonel Cox (the late Fox Harris), In pic's silliest routine, Carradine converses with Ammo, his little talking mascot, played by a childish puppet.
Dim plo line concerning cloning experiments and warlord Haig's true identity fails to rouse much interest. Main fun is watching Wildsmith's antics as she makes the most of Scott Ressler's putdown dialog. Victoria Sellers, daughter of Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland, makes an unimpressive film debut as a girl Wildsmith abandons in the desert.
Tech credits are extremely modest.
Yet another "Mad Max"-styled entry, "Warlords" benefits from a tongue-in-cheek approach but is still of only limited interest to sci-fi completists.
Pic is set after a nuclear war during an uprising by mutants. David Carradine portrays a cloned vesion of a famous hero, searching for his wife (Brinke Stevens) who's in he clutches of a powerful warlord (Sid Haig).
Taking the familiar sparring twosome trek of films ranging from "Soldier Blue" to "Spacehunter", Carradine reluctantly teams up with tough babe Danny (Dawn Wildsmith, in one of her best, earthiest screen roles to date). Later they're joined by nutty Colonel Cox (the late Fox Harris), In pic's silliest routine, Carradine converses with Ammo, his little talking mascot, played by a childish puppet.
Dim plo line concerning cloning experiments and warlord Haig's true identity fails to rouse much interest. Main fun is watching Wildsmith's antics as she makes the most of Scott Ressler's putdown dialog. Victoria Sellers, daughter of Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland, makes an unimpressive film debut as a girl Wildsmith abandons in the desert.
Tech credits are extremely modest.