The Warrior (1981)

Powerful

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Absolutely Fantastic

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

If you ever have to see one Indonesian movie in your life, THE WARRIOR would be a pretty good example of the genre as a whole. Packed with insane martial arts and action, tons of gore, sprinklings of sex and sadism and a period-set plot, THE WARRIOR (based on a popular Indonesian comic book) is a real crowd-pleaser of a film which helped to catapult star Barry Prima to fame. Two sequels followed offering up much the same mix of horror and action but THE WARRIOR is the first, and a film that has to be seen to be believed. The notoriously stroppy Prima, an European-looking leading man, makes the role his own and invests it with dynamism and heroism, if not charisma.The plot isn't really what's at stake here, consisting of typical good guys vs. bad guys stuff with an outcome you can easily predict. It's what happens along the way that holds the attention. The film opens with Prima, a slave, escaping from his Dutch captors and leading the villagers into a revolt. A psychopathic, brutal, almost indestructible bounty hunter arrives on the scene, stunning the Dutch with his bull-fighting and fire-breathing activities (!). They send him on a mission to kill Prima, but he ends impaled through the mouth with a spear instead. The Dutch then turn to darker methods to capture Prima, employing a voodoo priest to bring the decapitated body of an evil wizard back to life.What follows is the film's most macabre moment - the coffin rises from the earth and out of it the headless corpse. The wizard's head then also returns to life and levitates back on to the body. Seeking Prima out, the wizard fights Prima with powerful invisible magic and the warrior is captured and thrown in a Dutch prison, where he is crucified to a wall just like in a certain scene in THE BEYOND and with no less gore. To make matters worse, his eyes are gouged out by metal rods leaving him gored and in agony. Prima calls down the power of his god to give him strength and after painfully pulling the nails from his hands, he tears down the wall and leads a prison revolt.The real highlight of the movie is Prima's battle with the reanimated wizard. First he cuts off an arm, then a leg, and then the head of the zombie wizard, resulting in blood spurts all other the place. Incredibly the wizard is able to reattach his severed limbs with surprisingly good special effects work, until he is finally chopped in half in the air and his two halves impaled on swords like kebabs. A fantastic (in both senses of the word) battle, imaginative and excellently realised, what more could you wish for? Well there is more; we have scenes of deadly LEAVES killing people (where else would you see THAT?), people levitating and flying in the air like in a Hong Kong film, plenty of gore, violence, torture, blood, and general brutality, some comic relief and romance for those who like that kind of thing. THE WARRIOR: an Indonesian epic which remains unforgettable to those lucky enough to have seen it.

Indonesian martial arts flick. It's the kind of movie that reminds you that you haven't seen everything yet. It's incredibly bizarre. Not good, mind you, but so weird you can't help but like it. Action star Barry Prima stars as Jaka Sembung, a mighty mystical rebel trying to resist the rule of the evil Dutch. The governor of the island, a mutton-chopped maniac, hires a series of wacky wizard villains to dispatch Jaka. The film is extraordinarily brutal. The hero at one point gets his eyes stabbed out. The hero is Muslim, and at one point he's turned into a pig, which is probably even worse than being blinded by needles. This may not be very well done, but it's certainly never boring. In fact, I'd categorize it as a must-see for anyone who likes bat-crap insane movies.

This Indonesian film belongs to the strangest obscure oddities of film history. It offers a wild mix of Action, Fantasy, Horror and Epic, with the title character Jaka Sembung, maybe the most vulnerable super hero ever put on celluloid.Although the production values are laughable compared with almost any American production, the film delivers good entertainment and never becomes boring. The action scenes are trashy, the sometimes astonishingly gory special effects are cheap but effective, and the dramatic story boosts plenty of unintentional humor to make this pic a thoroughly funny experience that certainly bares cult potential.

The Warrior, Jaka Sembung, played by Barry Prima, is an Indonesian Robin hood with magical powers who fights evil Dutch Imperialists. This is one little strange movie filled with martial arts, mysticism, blood & gore, and a strong anti-imperialist message. It is also quite funny, and the dubbing is of course priceless. The final battle between the evil Ki Item and the warrior has to be the most weird piece of bloodshed in movie history, and who can forget the sequence where Jaka Sembung gets a new pair of eyes. Essential viewing for fans of Asian weirdness. the U. K. version seems to have some minor cuts, but is still worth watching.Recommended.