Kings of the Sun
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Movie Reviews of Kings of the Sun
Movie Review: Review
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a very possible story. It happens before any white man set his footprints on Texas. Outstanding story, excellent actors. I highly recommend this movie.Movie Review: One Of My Favorite Films.
Summary: 5 Stars
A really good action adventure film based in Central America. If you like stories about the Inca, etc, you should like this one.Movie Review: kings of the sun
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie many years ago and have always enjoyed it. I was glad to see it finally come out on dvd.Movie Review: GREAT Discovery
Summary: 4 Stars
"Kings of the Sun" is the story of an adventure that probably never happened, but would have been great if it did: A Maya king flees his homeland and a bloodthirsty enemy, in a fleet and lands north enough to encounter native Americans of which Brynner is the chief, Black Eagle, a charismatic leader that tries to negotiate a pact with the refugee nation and bond with their beautiful, blue-eyed princess, Ixchel (Anne Field).
George Chakiris plays Balam, the Maya, king, Black Eagle's rival for her affections, and son of kings to the ninth generation. In spite of being young and impetuous, Chakiris lacks the flair and commanding presence for the role. He is also strapped with a shirt that looks like a Fendi creation for the first scenes and with a jade armour in the war scenes that looks uncomfortably plastic, and which offer little competition for Brynner's virile sensuality in his shirtless and tight Indian pants costume.
A good comparison between these two Indian chiefs, brings to mind another Bryner classic hunk to hunk competition: It is hard to concentrate on Charles Heston's Moses in the Ten Commandments while Bryner's Ramses is in the same scene wearing a magnificent collar-necklace and pretty much nothingelse. Keeping the shaved head look as his trademark for this exotic epic, Brynner yet again steals the show with his macho antics, and 'barbaric' demeanor, at one point climbing a tree with the suppleness of a panther. This movie is clearly a vehicle for his star personality and it outshines all the other players and if you are a Brynner fan, this is a must-see movie.
The movie is great fun, but highly inaccurate in the historical aspects, although the costumes and architecture have been finely reproduced for the most part, the viewer must see Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" for a more authentic version of the period, still considering other Holywood creations of the time, this is almost scholarly. The opening scenes inside a Maya pyramid are fascinating for the creativity involved in making an entire army attend a funeral and escape into the fields through a secret tunnel while the top pf the pyramid is being assulted by the crazed Hunac Kell.
Richard Basehart is the high priest, and the other major character. He tries to make the king understand that he cannot bring this new life to his people in a new land, without giving a life (human sacrifice) But Balam is ready to change the theology of his nation under the influence of Black Eagle and the desire for peace, so the priest takes his own life in a dramatic moment at the top of the recently constructed pyramid.
Leo Gordon is awful as the tyrant Hunac Kell, the bllodthirsty enemy of Balam and his people. He sounds like a marine gone bezerk while wearing the wrong costume. His strength is a sword of metal, a historical impossibility as the Maya or for that matter Mesoamerican cultures did not use metal for their weapons prior to the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors.
Filmed beautifully around real Mexican pyramids, lucious vegetation and sandy beaches with perfect surf, Thompson's motion picture is colorful and highly entertaining. Strongly recomended for action film lovers of historical extravaganzas.
Movie Review: "Obey the King."
Summary: 4 Stars
Right on!
Wait just a minute. So these alleged people could invent pyramids, furniture, boats,
feathers, and hair combs but they cant invent a simple sword thats made out of something
besides mesquite wood??? I'm not buying it.
"I wanted you to feel my hate, as I once wanted you to feel my love." haw haw haw Did they
actually make Yul Brenner (Black Eagle) say this? This week I'm reviewing Yul Brenner movies,
hoping to learn how he got such a good tan. And hey, he still had that scalplock from Taras
Bulba. Suuh-weeeeet!
The best part of the movie is when the young king George Chakiris who is standing by the altar
of sacrifice (got to get me one of them things) and says to Black Eagle, "Go home" and everybody
sort of looks around at each other with that WTF look on their face and Richard Basehart commits
Hari Krishna probably because his agent just told him he was going to spend the next 4 years in
a submarine having a secret love affair with young Captain Crane. "Damn the torpedoes. Woohoooo!"
So what happens is this....Black Eagle and the young King get together and make a deal not to kill
each other and then the BE's people move into the makeshift Mayan fort and tear down the stockade
to build tee pees and fires. Its all just one big Native American love in but then predictably,
a womern screws everything up.
I wont spoil the rest of it for you but the climax is great, as long as you don't have any aversion
to burning flesh and wholesale slaughter. Better than Troy or the 300 Spartans for learning your basic
Pyramid Protecting Skills (PPS). A real casting gem! 4 Pints