Sorta. The villain is a magi-tech guy who uses steampunkish gadgets to tear down the natural world. Kind of a cross between Lady Eboshi, Saruman, Lex Luthor and Elon Musk. I think that was a strong creative choice and it's among the film's better elements.

One of the most frustrating things in the movie is that the antagonists are more "tragic antiheroes who fell victim to their obsessions" than "sadistic born-evil nya-ha-haas." It's a good idea, and the actors bring that quality to their portrayals... and then bad direction and awful dialog kill it.

Such a bummer.

Yep. I really wanted to shake both the director and the screenwriter for taking so many good-to-great ingredients and making such weak soup with them. It's worth seeing for a few bucks, mostly for Lutz, good production design, and a cast that puts effort into making the movie better than it is.

I really like Robert Sheehan too, so I'll still watch it and wonder about "what if?"

Sheehan is quite good. Like Lutz, he pulled a vivid performance out of a terrible script. Villains are usually the weak links in this sort of film (Robert Moll in The Sword and the Sorcerer being probably the biggest exception), and that's not the case in Red Sonja.