Olivia d'Abo is just plain miscast: it's like she's a marker that should read "Insert More Interesting Character in Second Draft." Arnold Schwarzenegger does a competent job as Conan, but we don't see the raw power and brute force of the first movie. Grace Jones is interesting to look at but gets tiresome VERY fast the cowardly sidekick gets more irritating by the second Mako wears this expression like he's only in this one for the money. The basic storyline would be okay, but the script gives Conan a coterie of unneccessary sidekicks (as if Conan were not a strong enough character to carry a movie by himself). It's like "Destroyer" is stuck in a state of half-development. Take out the sex, tone down the violence, crank up the humor, and. The original, classic "Conan the Barbarian" was a hit, but the Hollywood bigwigs decided they could get x-amount more money if they made a more family-friendly sequel, thereby opening the franchise to the lucrative kid's market (never mind that, for as long as there have been "restrictive" movie ratings, kids have known how to get to see the movies they want). Oh, I can understand why "Conan the Destroyer" is the way it is.
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