Nessieldwi
Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.
KnotStronger
This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Kaelan Mccaffrey
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Hattie
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Rainey Dawn
General Amilcare (Hamilon) kills King Lotar with the help of the king's niece Mila. Hamilon and Mila take the throne as the new dictator King and Queen. The King wages war on their peaceful neighboring country, killing the woman and kids, enslaving the men. The Queen is torturing her cousin Diana (King Lotar's daughter). Suddenly a hero appears, his name is Ursus. Ursus is captured and enslaved for only for awhile then sentenced to a slow and torturous death but Ursus breaks free. Now Ursus and Lotar will fight in the pits of a volcanic cavern! This is the 3rd film of the Ursus trilogy. It's your standard or typical B-Move Peplum of the time era. I found it a little entertaining at times. The arena scenes are the best, just mindless watching them in their costumes battle then Ursus challenged Hamilon. The ending was OK when the people battled the soldiers and the battles that took place underground in the cavern.3/10
Mike_Noga
If the Italians had made a version of Dynasty back in the early '60s that was set in ancient times and featured Greek warriors, snakes, monsters, strong men and impaling, it would have looked a lot like this movie. There's all kinds of back stabbing, bed hopping and double dealing here, as well as plenty of action, although unlike Dynasty, there are no catty slap fights between Joan Collins and Linda Evans...:( With all the wheeling and dealings it's difficult to discuss the story much without giving anything away. Suffice it to say that a "BAD PERSON" steals the kingdom from "A GOOD PERSON" whilst wiping out a the home village of a "REALLY BIG GOOD PERSON" who then teams up with the PEOPLE to free the land and dispense beefy, man-skirted justice.Special bonus appreciation points go to Claudia Mori who played the king's niece, turncoat and an especially sultry femme fatale.Ed Fury played Ursus in both movies and he's one of my favorite peplum heroes. He's a big imposing guy but not in a bulky ponderous way that some other Hercules types appear. He actually seems capable of performing some of the athletic action packed stunts his role requires.This is a solid combo of peplum action and adventure. A little more humor would have tipped this into the five star basket, but as it stands we're looking at a more than respectable four star entry into the peplum lists.
doug1717
I found this film in a collection of old films on eBay. I certainly wasn't expecting "Spartacus" , just some matinée fun like the old Sinbad features. Ursus is the sort of predictable film you could add your own smart-alec dialog to and still have fun. Well the film doesn't have a cast of thousands, but it really isn't that bad. The film revolved around Ed Fury's pre-steroid abuse hulking frame and his diminutive little brother. They end up on a quest to help a princess Ursus had a romantic history with. During the first battle scene, Ursis kicks butt bare handed until he reaches into a cart and finds a conveniently placed 5 foot long club replete with spikes that looks like it came from the Flintstones. The bad guy looks amazingly like "Lost!" actor Terry O'Quinn, and is reminiscent of Ming The Merciless. The women are all buxom and tightly clad, and there are Herculean challenges and evil plots for Ursus to surmount. I always wondered why these sort of films gave these strong men feats of strength to prove their innocence. In Ursus's case, he might have defeated an elephant, but I bet a math test would have laid him low.
dbborroughs
Actually they are five muscle men tossing make believe rocks but in a run of the mill film of good guy freeing oppressed people you take what you can get.The action is good but the story is average and the same one we've seen in just about every film like this. Worse its paced much too slowly. The dubbing is interesting as voices change depending on whats being said. Its a bland exercise that is best summed up by its semi volcanic eruption- its not quite the spectacle anyone hoped for.