Good movie but grossly overrated

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Quest For The Mighty Sword is the title used for the version of this movie that I watched. This is the third and rarest film in the Ator trilogy, written and directed by Aristide Massaccesi under the alias David Hills, and photographed using the alias Federiko Slonisko. The first two films in the series were Ator, The Fighting Eagle (1982) and The Blade Master (1984), both starring Miles O'Keeffe. Another movie titled Iron Warrior, directed by Alfonso Brescia, also starred O'Keeffe as Ator; however, he wasn't quite the same character in this movie. Massaccesi wasn't very pleased with Iron Warrior (he wasn't the only one), so he retook his series and made this official sequel with Eric Allan Kramer as Ator. (No surprise that O'Keeffe didn't return as Massaccesi has stated that he can't act!) Kramer makes a decent Ator, and I'm disappointed that he didn't make another Ator movie. Quest For The Mighty Sword has never been released on DVD, and the VHS tape is out of print. The budget is low, the effects aren't so special and the directing and acting are fair-to-middling. Still, I love these types of movies despite their low ambitions as they show that films don't need to have a huge budget or big name stars for me to have a lot of fun watching them!

I find I often like really bad movies,they can have a certain charm that is appealing. I can't say that this is one of them. Poorly written, bad editing, clumsy acting, goofy costumes, incredibly disjunct yet so simplistic you don't have any trouble following the lack of a sensible plot. It's sooo bad that it sucks you in and you feel compelled to see it through to the bitter end (ack, make it stop.....). Viewers will recognize Eric Allan Kramer from 'Men in Tights' and other movies, plus his most recent stint as 'Bob Duncan' on the Disney Channel. I like him a lot but I'm not sure what compelled him to do this rather fascinating bit of rot. At any rate even though I'm sounding really negative about it, if you've not seen this flick it's probably worth watching once so that you can say with pride that you suffered through it and can comment knowingly about it.

It's Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" With All The Names Changed!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_(opera)Grindl- Mime. Ator- Siegfried. Dehamira- Brunnhilde.I can't believe there was no credit at all given to Wagner. Sure, he was a proto-Nazi but the man at least could weave a yarn!So is there any recognizable music at least in this? Maybe perhaps something operatic? Something vaguely... Wagnerian?And how is it that I never saw this masterpiece? A message board I'm on had someone ask what the movie was with a plot about a young man raised by a evil dwarf & he reforged the sword that was rightfully his... and I said "Sounds like Wagner's Siegfried to me!" Someone else actually knew the movie & gave the title as "Quest for the Mighty Sword". And so I am here.

This one has been on my "Bottom 10" list since the first time I saw it, and it will probably remain there forever. There aren't enough of the right kind of words in any language to describe how awful this flick really is.This is the single movie I can recommend to anyone who claims to have never seen a "bad" movie. Probably the only film that could be used in university courses to illustrate the wrong way to accomplish any movie-making goal. Absolutely nothing about this film was done correctly. The script, plot, acting, direction, lighting, sound, costumes, effects, and set design, to name a few, were individually atrocious. The combined effect of these is one that prompts a gag reflex from the audience for a good solid hour and a half, if they can manage to remain conscious for the whole thing.