Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights

1998
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

2.2/10

197

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Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998)

Adventure Fantasy

Young Anthony and his grandfather read a magical book about their ancestor Sinbad and become participants in it. Sinbad and wizard Sage must stop evil wizard Bophisto and his minion Nimbus f... Read allYoung Anthony and his grandfather read a magical book about their ancestor Sinbad and become participants in it. Sinbad and wizard Sage must stop evil wizard Bophisto and his minion Nimbus from obtaining the key to all knowledge.Young Anthony and his grandfather read a magical book about their ancestor Sinbad and become participants in it. Sinbad and wizard Sage must stop evil wizard Bophisto and his minion Nimbus from obtaining the key to all knowledge.

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IMDb RATING

2.2/10

197

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Dean Stockwell was promised a box of Cuban cigars as compensation for appearing in the film. Stockwell arrived on set in Jordan, and he found out that the producers didn't get him his cigars, he immediately decided to board the next plane home. He only relented after the producers begged him to stay.

Goofs
The end credits include a typo. The princess's name is credited as SHALAZAR, but then a moment later the younger version of the character is credited as SHALIZAR.

Quotes
Sinbad: How'd you beat me here?
Sage: You might be a great warrior, but you don't know shortcuts.

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Featured in Movie Nights: Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (2015)

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2/10

A film whose IMDB trivia is far, far more interesting than the film itself.

Even if you don't watch "Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights", you really should read the IMDB trivia section for it. It's because out of the many thousands of films I've seen, none of them have crazier trivia sections. You just have to read it...and you'll be amazed!

If you do decide to see the film, it's not especially good and currently has an appalling overall score of 2.2. But because so few people have reviewed it or scored it, it will never make IMDB's infamous Bottom 100 List...though it's score alone is worse than many movies on the list.

Although the story is supposed to be about Sinbad, a mythical figure from what is modern day Iraq, part of the film also involves Chinese warriors. Oddly, none of the principle actors look Iraqi nor Chinese. Instead, you have a lot of white folks in all the acting roles and the only folks who look otherwise are locals used sparingly as extras.

The story is told by some magical modern guy with a magical book he shows a teen. At first this is interesting...but over time the kid and magical guy pop in and out of the story with little reason to it. Regardless, the book tells a story about some maniac guy who seems unkillable and his annoyingly overacting boss (Dean Stockwell). As the story progresses, it all becomes very jumbled and nonsensical. I really think they ran out of money and just shoved the footage they had together somewhat haphazardly. Overall, a film that merits a 1 or a 2....though it's not nearly as horrible as the trivia section would suggest.