Blu-ray Review – Amazons

While 1985's "Barbarian Queen" was mostly an exercise to photograph topless women and stage swordfights, 1986's "Amazons" aims a little higher in the storytelling department. That's not to suggest producer Roger Corman is giving up his sexploitation ways, but the screenplay by Charles Saunders (adapting his own short story) tries to conjure a complex fantasy world to explore, laboring to become a "Lord of the Rings"-style epic on a meager Corman budget. "Amazons" is unexpectedly ambitious, but its imagination isn't always a participatory event, finding Saunders lost in own world- building while director Alejandro Sessa tries to make sense of it all, resulting in an intriguing but confusing odyssey into a sword-hunting, battle-ready Arthurian-tinged adventure that also makes time to watch actresses bathe. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com