Amazons and Gladiators (2001)

User Rating:

2.7/10   

Director:

Zachary Weintraub

Writer:

Zachary Weintraub (writer)

Genre:

Drama | Action | Adventure

Tagline:

The fight is just beginning.

Plot:

During the Roman Empire, General Crassius ruled a small province with an Iron fist. Serena, a young girl in a village...

Plot Keywords:

Gladiator | Amazon | Roman Empire | Nudity | Female Nudity

Cast

Patrick Bergin	...	Crassius
Jennifer Rubin	...	Ione
Richard Norton	...	Lucius
Nichole Hiltz	...	Serena
Wendi Winburn	...	Gwyned
Melanie Gutteridge	...	Briana
Mary Tamm	...	Zenobia
Janina Matiekonyte	...	B'Shara (as Janina Matekonyte)
Darius Miniotas	...	Dance Master
Rona Waddington	...	Lead Dancer (as Rona Wadington)
Tomas Ereminas	...	Gallo
Gabija Danileviciute	...	Young Serena
Lauren Wilcox	...	Young Briana

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality and violence.

Runtime:

Canada:94 min | Spain:89 min

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Australia:MA | Germany:16 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Vilnius, Lithuania

Company:

MBP (Germany)

Quotes:

[A slave discovers Serena and Briana disguised as dancing girls:]
Briana: "It's okay: we're Amazons!"

Movie Connections:

References C'era una volta il West (1968)

Low budget heroine movie

The three forces in the universe, in order of strength, are the force that bonds magnets together, the force that bonds protons together, and the force of heroine warrior worshipping energy you feel while watching Amazons & Gladiators, a film by Beyond Films, MBP films and Drotcroft Ltd. Apparently raising enough money to make a movie about heroine warriors takes 3 studios.

Men have long waited for a movie about the Amazons, a movie which portrays Amazons as independant, intelligent, freedom fighting warriors instead of senile monsters like in Land of the Prehistoric Women. This one has good sights of heroines wielding swords, heroines wearing armor, heroines lifting heavy objects, heroines stabbing abusive dictators. If the same movie was made with Jodie Foster, Demi Moore, Ali Larter, or Radha Mitchell, had a bigger budget, a better script, better lighting, better acting it might have been one of the best heroine movies ever.

Unfortunately, there's only acting in the academic sense. The characters wear costumes, read lines, and sometimes move around.

You're better off watching it with the sound off. All the shots are closeups of a tree, building, or fighting ring. There's no wide shot of the Amazon homeland, a Colosseum, or a palace. The weather is consistently dreary. The production is so bad, you might think anyone sitting through this movie was insane but undoubtedly many flat broke, unmarried, male breadwinning gene deprived, SUV impaired men have watched it over and over.