I received from Disney the other day a movie from their Disney World Cinema collection titled “Once Upon A Warrior“. Rated PG-13, it isn’t a movie that my daughter can watch, so I watched it on my own.
The basic storyline is about an evil Queen, named Irendi, who is in reality a demon spirit that takes the form of a snake. She has subjected the island country of Sangarashtra to brutal conditions, and there is hardly anyone left to try and combat her evil ways. However, there is a monastery, and in this monastery lives Moksha, a nine-year-old girl with incredible healing powers. Moksha is asked to travel to a small region to revive the children, who have fallen into a curse and won’t wake up. To accompany her on this dangerous journey are Yodha, a blind warrior, and Kufli, who came to find the child so his son (and the other children) could be saved.
The journey is fraught with danger because Irendi, who is a spirit that has taken on a human appearance, wishes to become immortal, and to do so, she must kill Moksha. The story takes several plot twists, which unfortunately, while meant to add some of the back-story to the movie, are really too long and kind of make you forget what the movie was trying to tell you to begin with. Additionally, the movie’s language is Telugu, which is primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and the district of Yanam, India, so I needed to make use of the English subtitles.
As the movie progressed, I was left with the feeling that this story kind of reminded me of the Lord of the Rings movies — good against evil, armies of the evil Queen against a small cast of good guys, even a love story thrown in the mix between Yodha and a woman named Priya, who is a relative of Queen Irendi. The movie tries to lighten things up with some dance and music numbers, but unfortunately, that felt like the worst part of the movie.
Overall, Once Upon A Warrior is not a terrible movie, and it did get better at the movie went on, but it certainly isn’t the best movie ever created, either. I would give it probably a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10.
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