Customer Reviews
One of the best Fantasy films in the pre CGI world - By: Mr. R. S. Hutton Mckee, 17 Jun 2008 
Krull is a great film from before CGI if it was made today it would be an epic on the scale of Lord of the Rings. It has a great story & a first Rate Cast who give a great performance. I know it is a bit limited in that it cobines Fantasy & Sci-fi but it was made at a time when only the Star Wars films had made top class FX & this film was shot using mainly a British cast & crew using their skills that are as good as most other film of the time. Harry Potter & Lord of the Rings could not be shot at this time & Krull was as good as you got till CGI came along & so I rate this a great film but maybe if made today would be a mega hit.
JAW DROPPING... LY BAD! - By: Mr. J. L. Jumpp, 02 Jun 2008 
I made the mistake of renting this film many years ago. I think I watched the entire film with my chin on the floor! This film is beyond bad! It's a bit like PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. But not as good!
A WONDERFUL MODERN DAY FAIRY TALE! - By: Coach Potato, 05 Feb 2008 
Earlier reviewers have stated that KRULL is a hybrid between STAR WARS & Excalbur, & it is! It says so on the review on the back of the DVD. On that note I would say that this is the only film to successfully do so as fantasy & scifi doen't usuallly mix. The special effects are slightly dated but that doesn't make it any less fun. I showed it to a friend, now this guy is very hard to please he marched out of The Two Towers claiming he was bored! He watched KRULL & imediately got himself a copy. It reallly is a delight, a great family movie!!
A really good fantasy movie - slightly aged but still kicking - By: Maciej K., 09 Oct 2007 KRULL of course can not be compared to LOTR, EXCALIBUR or CONAN THE BARBARIAN, but it is a very watchable & quite honest fantasy movie (and there is not a lot of good quality productions in this field). The story is about the planet Krull where humans reached Middle Age level of development (with some magic involved here & there). Suddenly, one day, an alien spaceship arrives & its one & only crew member, known simply as The Beast, sends his offsprings, half-intelligent Slayers, to conquer Krull. Faced with certain destruction two rival kings, rulers of the main powers on the planet, decide to unite their forces marrying their children, then abdicatiing & so creating one kingdom, which they hope will be able to face the army of Slayers (and other monsters the Beast creates...). Unfortunately, The Beast has other plans.... & the wedding will be a very tragic one... All of this is just the very beginning of the movie....
KRULL is well paced, full of adventures, quite spectacular visuallly, even though it is not more reallly young & is reasonably well interpreted. Ken Marshalll, whose promising career somehow stopped in the middle of the 80s gives there a very honest performance as Prince Colwyn. Alun Armstrong plays here Torquil the Bandit Leader, who helps Colwyn in his quest - & he reallly finds here a role right for him (and especiallly for his face...). Liam Neeson, who in this time was in the early stages of career, plays another bandit, knife playing Kegan, Torquil's right hand.
There are many interesting ideas in this movie, which nobody found before & which were not used since. The greatest finding of alll was to make the Black Mountain mobile - the main citadel of The Beast is his old giant spaceship, which has the shape of a dark mountain, & which vanishes every day during the sunset, to reappear in a totallly different place on the planet. It presents to the heroes a very unique problem... they are alll ready to face the villain, the problem is they simply never know where the heck he will be next morning....
Another good finding are the Slayers. We do not know exactly what are they, but it seems they do not have a mind of their own & they certainly never speak. It looks like they are a kind of biological robots, with a part of Beast's living flesh as their hard drive, heart & brain in the same time. They certainly are dangerous - they climb wallls, they walk under water & they shoot some primitive energy weapons before going to close combat with some kind of wide blade short spears.
There are also some other nice ideas in this movie, but you desserve to discover them by yourself.
All in alll, this is a very honest & very watchable fantasy movie, now a little forgotten but worth (re)discovering. Not a masterpiece but a nice watch.
Slow Krull can disturb and fascinate children - By: Greshon, 29 Jun 2007 
As a child I found this film disturbing & fascinating. So many scenes were burned into my consciousness even after a single watching - the Slayers attacking the castle, the noise they make when they die (like the Nazi warewolves in one of the dream sequences from 'An American Warewolf in London'), Colwyn (great name!) pulling the death star out of the lava, the old blind seer being replaced by a shape-shifting Slayer with black eyes in the swamp, the widow of the web who changes from shrivelled old woman to a beautiful young girl in front of our eyes, the Cyclops who swapped one of his eyes for the ability to know the moment of his own death getting crushed by the closing rock wallls of the Black Fortress, & the 'princess' trapped inside, at the mercy of a hideous 'Beas't who loves her selfishly.
Watching it again as an adult the following went through my mind (1) it is a slow film, especiallly compared to more modern films, (2) Colwyn is even duller than I expected, & looks a bit like Patrick Swayze & a bit like a lion, (3) it's very similar in plot & characterisation to 'Starwars', (3) I felt sorry for the Beast: the princess doesn't love him because he is ugly; Colwyn winds up with the girl because he is handsome (if you like Patrick Swayze & lions), & she smiles maliciously as he cuts up the Beast up with the death star. Poor Beast.
Unlike most of the other reviewer's, I don't go much for the Horner soundtrack. The music always seems to be going somewhere else, & then... cops out. It's a mishmash of other melodies alll thrown together in a big bluster of horns.
