Please don't spend money on this.

A Major Disappointment

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

"Deathstalker 3" is a film that is completely unavailable on DVD for some reason, and is solely remembered for its one redeeming feature-it made for a great MST3K episode. The film is dominated by its main character, the mythically unappealing Rogue/Redneck dual class "Deathstalker" played by John Allen Relson. Deathstalker fails at both stalking and making his enemies dead and mostly wanders around with some whiny women looking for the mythic Mexican city of horse dung and cheap stucco. His opponent is the dreaded bald guy "Troxartes", who can bring dead people back to life as unhappy jobbers about 9174384328637743 centuries before TNA Wrestling did the same. The movie's only somewhat appealing character is a throaty vegetarian gal who appears for only five minutes but informs the audience that POTATOES ARE WHAT WE EAT. This was particularly tragic as I'm sure the film's production budget would have bought some nice steak fries if they had decided not to make it. Nevertheless, there are actual (terrible) fight scenes and (stupid) things happen, making it slightly superior to Carnival Magic.

Third film and a third different actor as 'Deathstalker'. Probably the least interesting guy in the role so far, he's good looking sure but has a kind of Dennis Quaid look about him which equals a different kind of character.This guy is a blonde version of the guy in 'Deathstalker II', cheeky and not overly muscular, in short neither are as cool as Rick Hill. Humour is the main ingredient as usual, well that and women's tits, its pretty much business as usual yet again. The same locations, same costumes and same basic plot of 'Deathstalker' trying to beat an evil leader whilst saving the typically blonde girl. There is a plot about magical stones and trying to bring them back together but the outcomes are still the same. Amazingly the director hasn't used any stock footage for this outing which is nice and probably the only plus point. The adventure here is a bit dull really, action is sparse but production values seem a little better.Again the films poster is pretty cool but in no way reflects the actual film. The films title is also obscure and doesn't really mean much but I guess it sounds good. First film still reigns supreme for me but people now know what to expect. Not to be taken seriously and gloriously a B-movie of epic proportions, playing on that fact now, by this point the cult status is looming.2/10

Ah.....did my ears deceive me or was that the same score from 'Battle Beyond The Stars' AND 'Wizards Of The Lost Kingdom'? Oh yes it was! - which told me right from the start that this movies budget was presumably marginally smaller than a dead dogs IQ.Still....there is the saying 'cheap and cheerful' so I sat and watched the film with low (but quietly hopeful) expectations.Now I should point out here that having seen all of the Deathstalker movies, I've only really liked number 2 which took the refreshing step of introducing a highly comedic element into what is intrinsically a very stoic and humourless genre.However, it was evident within a few minutes, and I was pleased to find that this sequel too, continued the tongue in cheek trend, although it is far more subtle here.John Allen Nelson assumes the role of the eponymous hero this time around and he does an amiable job, delivering some witty one liners to help the action along.So far not too bad then.....so why the relatively low rating I have awarded this film? Well you see, nothing of any interest actually happens! Sure there is some glorious overacting (especially from Thom Christopher), some atrociously choreographed sword fights, enough daft scenes to sink a Frigate and some exceptionally stupid dialogue....all the things in fact that any self respecting B-Movie should boast, however, it all feels strangely flat here.Even the usual nudity quotient is ominously low in this instalment! (Shock, Horror!!!!) To summarise then, whilst this is certainly not a particularly unwatchable movie, it certainly fails to enthral and will probably only be of any real interest to people wishing to view the whole Deathstalker series.

This is a terrible movie that should be in the bottom 10, at least it has some budget to make it worthwhile, but it's still very very bad: terrible acting on behalf of nearly everyone, stupid plot, you name itit's even hard to watch with the help of mystery science theater's wise cracks (that version will make you laugh though)in short, this is pure agony in it's original form