Review – Kings of the Sun

What a weird movie. George “that guy from West Side Story” Chakiris plays a Mayan king who leads his people away from foreign invaders and then in turn invades the land of another group somewhere on the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico. For an extra dose of what-the-hell, Yul Brynner plays the leader of the indigenous people who must now fend off the invasion. It looked like they spent a lot of money making this without giving a lot of thought to whether anyone would actually want to see it, so it’s kind of a shame that this is at best a footnote in some otherwise legendary careers. Mildly amusing