Given the low - budget origins of the film, the look of this transfer is to be expected. (jackasscritics.com)
Words on a Page is the most interesting of the three, since it stops the praise for a short while so Helm can discuss the creative origins of the film. (popmatters.com)
Despite the unpromising pulp origins of the film's hero and the acting resume of its lead actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, director John Milius grounded his pre-Sumerian fantasy in a level of reality sorely lacking in most other fantasy films (even Barbarian's inauspicious sequel Conan the Destroyer). (soundtrack.net)