Review of The Secret Seven

This is a rogue's yarn of a rebellion against the cruelty of oppression somewhere in Asia Minor in the 4th century B. C, or so the headlines tell. Nothing fits into any historical context, and even the names of the characters suggest anything but Greek: Axel, Rubio, Leslio, Rabirio, Kadem - all the names are anything but Greek. Yet they are some kind of a fugitive gang oppressed by Macedonian mercenaries, and Leslio succeeds in liberating his brother Axel, who apparently has been in exile for a number of years. Together with five liberated slaves, one of them being a versatile inventor, they plan a major coup against the oppressing establishment by stealing all of its gold, and they actually succeed with impossible plans. There is a girl also who is the ruler Rabirio's intended queen, but she has a relationship in the past with Leslio, so she gets mixed up in the intrigues. There are a lot of glorious fights with as many people dropping dead as in any modern splatter cinema, and the intrigue is wholly superficial and ridiculous, in the same vein as any Indiana Jones or Errol Flynn film but in miniature. The music is good, and that's the only really good thing of the film, which is built entirely on bombastic clichés with no characters of any real human interest at all. It could have been worse, though.