"Amazzoni - Donne D'Amore E Di Guerra" aka. "Battle Of The Amazons" of 1973, is hardly a masterpiece, of course, but nevertheless, I find it enjoyable. The peplum genre had its heyday in the 50s and 60s, and while there was a lot less effort put into this in comparison to its earlier counterparts, is is pure exploitation and to compensates for a low budget, bad acting and poor dialoge with lots of nudity, sex and gore.
A tribe of Amazon Warrior Women terrorize the country by kidnapping young men, who are then forced to submit to the disputatious (but pretty hot) ladies, as miners and occasional sex-slaves. Victimized by the Amazons, the inhabitants of a village, including the loyal female villagers, decide to fight back and hire a bunch of robbers to teach them how to instruct them in warfare.
The acting in this movie is not the best, except for Benito Stefanelli, a good actor, whom fans of Spaghetti Westerns should know, and who only has a small role in this, and Riccardo Pizzuti, who is usually seen getting beat up by Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill. The Amazon Tribe consists of about 30 women, most of whom aren't the greatest actresses, but at least they're pretty hot and lovely to look at in their mini-armor. However, it looks like some of these actresses were replaced by male (!) stuntmen in the battle sequences.
Inspite of many weaknesses, "Battle Of The Amazons" is quite enjoyable if you're a B-Movie fan like myself. As mandatory for an exploitation flick like this, there's a lot of sex and violence in it, people are mutilated and speared, limbs are chopped off and the viewer is entertained with battles, whippings, gore, sex orgies and bared breasts. The incredibly cheesy dialoge has unintentional comedy qualities, at times. Not great by any means. But my fellow fans of low-budget B-movies should enjoy it.
