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...take a decent pride. One leaves the film neither hugely thrilled nor greatly awed, but with a pleasant sense of having caught up with old friends and found them to be just fine, pretty much the way one hoped they would turn out in later life. -By Richard Schickel...
...flatness of Schwarzenegger's performance, the dullness of his odyssey. Instead of the giddy lift one sometimes obtains from improbably heroic adventures, one gets a grim endorsement of the uses of primitive mysticism and brutality. Conan is a sort of psychopathic Star Wars, stupid and stupefying. -By Richard Schickel...
...scenario by William Hanley that is without persuasive incident or dialogue, direction by Fielder Cook that is without texture or viewpoint. The aim here was obviously to do something elegant and up-market for television. The result is a bloodless bore on a screen of any size. -By Richard Schickel...
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