We start with omnious music when a mystery man comes into a town, this mystery man seem to be some kind of badass swordsman, considering the way people are clothed and the fact they eat with chop sticks seem to indicate this is the Far East. The Omnious Swordsman then interrupt a dinner party and start to kill people. Everyone at the party seem to be swordsmen, and the host a karate master, but the Omnious Swordsman kill them all.
Meanwhile Tarkan and Kurt arrive in Asia, and goes to eat at an inn in the desert. A young woman suddenly comes to the inn to warn about something, and soon a group of bandits comes riding towards the inn. They seem to be hunting the woman for some reason. Tarkan, of course, proceed to kick so much ass, that the bandit leader have to withdraw with the remaining bandits so they won't all die. That's how awesome Tarkan is. And I guess Kurt helped a bit too. With the bandits defeated the Young Woman is free to ride off again. However an Other Swordsman is watching from a mountain. This can't end well. And it doesn't, the Other Swordsman and his men catch the Young Woman easily.
Tarkan rides further and is then joined by some Weird People he seems to know. Soon they're surrounded by bandits though, and a new fight begins, and thanks to devious trickery the bandits, who seem to be working for the Omnious Swordsman actually win and force Tarkan and his weird friends to become prisoners.
Tarkan and his friends are then about to be burned on stakes, until suddenly the young woman from earlier intervene and through a sensual dance somehow convince the bandits and the Other Swordsman than blind knife fighting on a narrow log over a burning pit is better punsihment. The battle is cool and all, and Tarkan win of course despite his enemy cheating. After completing another weird trial as well as threatening the bandit leader Tarkan, his weird friends and the Young Woman are allowed to leave the Bandit Camp. I have no idea why the bandits suddenly has Tarkan complete some weird trials when they moments ago wanted to burn him alive. Anyway, Tarkan and the Young Woman part ways again. She's probably just going to get caught again, she'd really be better of just staying with Tarkan and Friends.
Meanwhile it is revealed that the Other Swordsman is working with the Emperor of China! Now we find the Omnious Swordsman again and it seems he has a relationship with the Emperor's daughter.
It seems the Young Woman had followed Tarkan, since she's spying on Tarkan and his Friends when they take a bath. Tarkan sends her away, while he and his friends visit the large Temple of the Kung Fu Monks. These Kung Fu monks seem to be more of the Pacifist kind though since they don't do any Kung Fu in this movie. The Kung Fu monks challenge Tarkan to get an Awesome Sword they have placed high up in the temple Inner Roof. Just when Tarkan accept the challenge the Omnious Swordsman and his Karate Dudes arrive and huge fight begins. And man, this temple is not buit of firm materials, since the walls break like they were made of paper, or something.
All Tarkan's friends are killed, and Tarkan himself thoroughly beaten. The Omnious Swordsman decide to take Tarkan with him back, because just kill him there is not evil enough or something. Actually it is revealed that not all of the Weird Friends are dead and the Kung Fu monks help the survivors heal. Meanwhile Tarkan himslelf is hanged upside down from a tree to be burned alive. The stupid Swordsman and his men leave, which of course is their mistake because Kurt is still alive and kicking, and the Young Woman seem to still be following them, and she and Kurt help Tarkan out of the deathtrap. So the Omnious Swordsman did not think that the dog that helped Tarkan and Friends in their fight and probably did best of all of them could possibly come to help his master? That's a serious oversight but it meant Kurt got some spotlight. But Tarkan is unconscious and probably close to death anyways. The Young Woman takes Tarkan to an Old Hermit for medical care, while the surviving Friends try to heal themselves in a river. The Omnious Swordsman and his men goes to the Kung Fu Temple to torture and kill the monks next. Then the Omnious Swordsman claims the Awesome Sword for himself.
The Hermit reveal that the only thing that can save Tarkan is apparently the milk of a female dog, so Kurt goes off to find one and bring her back. The Weird Friends turn up just in time to see Tarkan's healing. More Kurt spotlight, yay. And Kurt must really have been lucky to find a female dog that had puppies so quickly. For Tarkan to completely heal he has to bathe in a boiling spring though. Is the hermit trying to kill him? It certainly seems that way.
After a painful bathe Tarkan is fully healed and in better shape than ever before. Then it's time for Training Montage! And the hermit trained Tarkan to fight with his eyes closed, which probably will become handy. And Tarkan of course have a little love affair with the Young Woman before going off to fight the Omnious Swordsman.
At the Kung Fu Monastery they encounter the Other Swordsman and his men, meanwhile the Omnious Swordsman and his men encounter the Young Woman and the Hermit. The Hermit fight the Omnious Swordsman but is killed. Tarkan beat the Other Swordsman, then while his Friends still are fighting the Other Swordsman's men Tarkan rides off to meet up with the Omnious Swordsman in the desert for a last battle. But then for some reason Tarkan is tricked to shoot an arrow agains a prisoner who is bound, but sandstorms hinder him from seeing who it is. He shoots the prisoner, and it's of course the Young Woman who immidietely dies. Why Tarkan was tricked to do this I have no clue. But now it's PERSONAL.
Okay, Tarkan, lesson one, if the bad guys tell you to do something, you NEVER do what he says, because it's always something EVIL. Got it?
So Tarkan goes to the Omnious Swordsman's place and kills all his men and then for some reason decide to fight the Omnious Swordsman with a nunchuk. The Omnious Swordsman makes him dizzy, so he of course has to fight the Swordsman blind, just like the Hermit taught him. The fight continue with some hand to hand command, knife throwing and of course the Awesome Sword, that Tarkan now claims as his. And thus the movie end with Tarkan riding out into the sunset with his new Awesome Sword, and Kurt running beside him as usual.
It was great to come back to Tarkan after some time off, but I felt like this was the movie where I really couldn't figure out the plot. Why was Tarkan in Asia? What's so special with the Awesome Sword? And why did he stupidly shoot that arrow when it was clearly a trick by the Evil Swordsman. The fights were also great in this one, the coreography improves somewhat for each movie, but there was nothing special. The final battle had some surprises, but there was no new grounds covered when it came to the fighting coreography. It was great, Tarkan always is, but somehow it feels just less awesome than the other ones. Perhaps because the plot was more clearer, and you wouldn't need to understand the Turkish exposition to know what's going on in those.
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