Master of the Sword
- Video
- 2006
- 2h 12m
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The swords play second fiddle to the scenery
The use of authentic Eastern European ruins turn the all-male hijinx in Csaba Borbely's MASTER OF THE SWORD into a classy tableaux and they hold the interest as much as anything else in the movie. The crumbling, labyrinthine structure appears to be from the Middle Ages and the menacing gargoyles on the eerie overgrown stone fortress keep a cold eye on the muscled Magyars below. There's some half-hearted swordplay with orders barked in English-subtitled Hungarian ("Get up you coward! Fight!") and there's fetishism for sure as the many camera-pans caress the weapons and regalia these warrior wannabes remove slowly and often.
The slight story picks up from where the first film in a trilogy, THE EMPIRE OF CAESAR, left off with a drugged Flavius (handsome Claudio Antonelli) brought to a gladiator training camp in Capua where the focus is on fornication as much as fighting and there's even an indulgent visit from Caesar himself, come to inspect the lanista's wares. The members of this hotdog-happy male harem didn't exactly put the hung in Hungarian but they looked the part (for the most part, anyway) although they were way too noisy during sex. Borbely also had the annoying habit of having everyone pop off all over the camera lens. Those ruins may have been scenic but bushes were trimmed too short in this movie and none of the actors appeared to be Jewish, either, but that was probably the norm in 40 B.C. The many tattoos may not have been out-of-place, either, but the condoms probably were and some of the more intense cavorting looked downright dangerous: one centurion was spread-eagled over the open trap door of a scaffold platform while two soldiers brought up the rear and another leaned so far back on a high parapet that it's a miracle both guys didn't go sailing over the side when he threw his legs in the air. It was a long drop, too.
The slight story picks up from where the first film in a trilogy, THE EMPIRE OF CAESAR, left off with a drugged Flavius (handsome Claudio Antonelli) brought to a gladiator training camp in Capua where the focus is on fornication as much as fighting and there's even an indulgent visit from Caesar himself, come to inspect the lanista's wares. The members of this hotdog-happy male harem didn't exactly put the hung in Hungarian but they looked the part (for the most part, anyway) although they were way too noisy during sex. Borbely also had the annoying habit of having everyone pop off all over the camera lens. Those ruins may have been scenic but bushes were trimmed too short in this movie and none of the actors appeared to be Jewish, either, but that was probably the norm in 40 B.C. The many tattoos may not have been out-of-place, either, but the condoms probably were and some of the more intense cavorting looked downright dangerous: one centurion was spread-eagled over the open trap door of a scaffold platform while two soldiers brought up the rear and another leaned so far back on a high parapet that it's a miracle both guys didn't go sailing over the side when he threw his legs in the air. It was a long drop, too.
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