Even though I much prefer Kevin Sorbo as the golden-haired Hercules (right pic), I really liked KULL, his first cinema movie as a lead. It's certainly not up there with Lord of the Rings. In fact, it has more in common with the older Conan movies, but Sorbo is much more delicious than Arnold.

So, Kull is this commoner who becomes king by fluke, thereby pissing off several people who thought they should be king. He also ticks off the priests when he decides he wants to bring a more democratic spirit to the land. No one will be kept from office because of birth.

In the former king's harem, he sees a beautiful woman (Karina Lombard) who tells fortunes. There is instant sparkage, but before they can really get together, in comes Tia Carrere (with her hair an unusual shade of orange-red). She casts a spell on Kull, marries him, and then plans to have him assassinated on the wedding night. But he escapes with the help of a priest, who turns out to be the harem girl's exiled brother.

Tia turns out to be a demon who, in a few weeks, will be reborn and send the world into utter darkness and misery. Kull must defeat her by following a prophecy. So he and his friends set out. They do defeat her, Kull marries the harem girl, the bad king wanna-be (Thomas Ian Griffith), is killed, and unfortunately, so is the harem girl's brother.

This is very campy, but it's full of sword fights, braggadaccio, swagger, and love. SIGH.

I really can't help myself. Everytime it's on, I have to catch at least a bit of it.