Ator, The Fighting Eagle Review

Is Ator, The Fighting Eagle a good movie at all? Let’s take a look below and find out!

The Scores

Interest: 3.5/10

Acting: 4.5/10

Storyline: 4/10

Intensity: 3.5/10

Fights Guns or Otherwise: 4/10

Nudity: 2/10

Director Score: 5/10

Musical Score: 3/10

Dialogue: 5/10

Logic In The Film: 5.5/10

Ator, the Fighting Eagle is a 1982 film. It is an action, adventure, and fantasy film. The run time of the film is one hour and thirty-eight minutes. The three main stars of the film are Miles O’Keeffe (Known for The Blade Masters, Ator, the Fighting Eagle, Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Pocahontas: The Legend), Sabrina Siani (Known for The Throne of Fire, 2020 Texas Gladiators, Blue Island, and Ten Zan – Ultimate Mission), and Ritza Brown (Known for Ator, the Fighting Eagle, Sophia Loren: Her Own Story, Tuareg: The Desert Warrior, and Canne mozze). Joe D’Amato is the director (Best known for Death Smiles on a Murderer, Ator, the Fighting Eagle, Emanuelle’s Revenge, and 2020 Texas Gladiator) A quick summary of the film is “ A Man thought destined by fate, tries to overthrow the bad people, cant succeed, has a son, who is actually destined.” Let’s take a deeper look at the categories shall we?

Interest: My interest in this film wanted to be high, it was a cheesy fantasy film about saving your wife, and finding out that you are the chosen one to save people from the spider empire. It sounds lovely, but what we get is a near goreless, bad fighting, and characters that really seem like they’d be home than on the set. Its story while you understand it, doesn’t do anything to make it fun or grabbing, and it just never picks up at all.

Acting: The acting in the film was okay. Fantasy movies from the 80’s are never about the acting, and much more about sword play and the mythos behind it. But the dialogue keeps things flowing, gives you some information, and that is about it.

Storyline: So there is a very thin storyline. They try to pad it, try to fluff it out, make it seem large and grand in scale, but really it just is really bland, lame,and incredibly uninteresting. A man born, eventually finds out he isn’t a families child, marries his until then sister. HE then finds out he is a philosophized man from legend that will end the reign of an empire. And his just now made wife-sister, is kidnapped. That is nearly the whole story, and how it plays out.

Intensity: Intensity is also lacking besides the use of a live baby bear in scenes. Those scenes seem the least safe and you just hope the bear or the people don’t get mauled, otherwise the movie doesn’t do anything that seems to intense, one or two action scenes that may possibly get your blood flowing, but other than this everything falls flat.

Fights, Guns or Otherwise: The sword fights in this film are poor. They are uninteresting, not exciting, and you wish someone would of actually hacked an arm off. The other action sequences are also very dull and lacking. Verbal beatings are also very lacking. There are a couple of cheeky comments made but nothing remarkable. And forgot anything that would be considered long term mental scaring.

Nudity: There is a single scene with nudity in it, but you don’t see anything because the actress is so far away, and with the grain of the film and clarity, you can’t see anything while she is bathing in a river. Does it aid in the film in any way? A bit I suppose, but if the scene was omitted or never shot, you wouldn’t complain it wasn’t there.

Director Score: Joe D’Amato is an okay director. He found decent people for the movie, the costumes were okay, and the shots that were done were also just okay. Nothing about this movie really excelled in any way, and almost felt like it was in a rut the whole time. I wish there was something that I think excelled and showed off what could have been, but this movie just doesn’t have it.

Musical Score: There is a very subtle, moody and ambient. There is also a song at the end for the credits, but otherwise the music in this film just meets the needs of music for the movie.

Dialogue: The dialogue in the film is okay. Nothing that would be considered Oscar worthy, but nothing super terrible where you’d want to nuke it off the face of the Earth. The dialogue really is just used pass information, but nothing to really add to a backstory or adding to the mythos.

Logic in the Film: Physics seem sound in the film. Some parts of the film I find funny and odd because in one scene Ator jumps into some water and is blinded by his band that got wet and fell over his eyes. Just re-shoot the scene if something that goofy happens. Otherwise, nothing seemed to broke to make me question what was going on in the film.

So, did I enjoy the film? No I didn’t. Do I recommend it? Also, no. Ator, the Fighting Eagle, is slow, a slog, boring, weak as a fantasy film, or any film as a matter of a fact. And somehow this film got three damn sequels! How in the hell did that happen! All in all I give the movie a 40%. If you see this film on TV or a streaming site you use, skip it. Pick something else. Well, Until Next Time!