I agree with jewel5's review, I had not seen Lee Horsley in anything since he did the series "Paradise", He was a very popular actor in the 1980's. He had the starring role in " Sword and the Sorcerer", and I thought this was a sequel to his character "Talon". I was totally wrong about that, he had a very small cameo role and was listed as "The Stranger"?? This movie was a mess from the beginning, and Michael Pare's acting was terrible, he sounds like he is reading "Q" cards. I guess Lee Horsley's acting career is limited to "cameo" roles of less than "B" movies now, this is a shame that a gifted actor such as Horsley is reduced to this because of his age(mid 50's I believe). I rated this a 1 out of 10, but it should be a 0 out of ten!!

As soon as I saw that this was out, I rented it. Wow, what a piece of crap. It had none of the fun of the original and really didn't even tell a story at all. Lee Horsley Does appear but only for a minute and it is disappointing. Some of the plot devices from the original are used but wasted and the whole thing appears to be shot on video. The Tri-Sword appears off camera but is used very poorly. Michael Pare takes the place as the hero/ betrayer of the Sorceress vampire Whatever. Every episode of Hercules is better than this piece of junk. If you want a movie worth of the original, try "season of the Witch" or Solomon Kane.

We start with a good 10 minutes of overview and backstory by Hekate, granddaughter of Ma'at, Queen of Abelar. The granddaughter was portrayed as having some sort of speech impediment, or else the actress was just very badly miked. I needed the closed captions. This segment was largely done in sepia cartoons. Artsy cartoons, perhaps, but still. In any case, Ma'at's mother hired mercenaries to put down Sorcerer Xuxia and his vampire daughter Xia, before Xuxia opens a portal to the netherworld. Duguay, Rodrigo, and Oda manage just that, but Oda introduces complications instead of completely finishing the job.

Twenty years later, Princess Tanis becomes the centre of the light side, and Xia, the risen Vampire Queen, the leader of the dark side. The real core character, though, is warrior mercenary Oda, who slew the sorcerer Xuxia, reduced Xia to dust for 20 years, and fathered Princess Tanis, the mercenary Aedon, imperial assassin Rajan, and their sister Malia. Rajan had daughter Alana, whom she trained as an assassin. Besides those four, Oda fathered Kara by Xia, who gave birth before Oda, ah, dusted her off.

At the final command of Ma'at, Tanis finds her siblings. The group goes off to find their wayward and fertile father, then put down Xia and keep the door to the netherworld closed.

What could possibly go wrong?

This was another under capitalised project. It shows. The number of dead-end plot threads was too high. Also, too much time was devoted to dreary conversations, then Hekate would narrate what should have been long action sequences in a matter of a few seconds.