'Amazons & Gladiators' (2001) Zachary Weintraub. 

Conspicuously low budget, and cheesier than a centurion's sandals, Amazons & Gladiators stronger points are manifestly not its plenitude of 'colourful' performances! While amiable enough, Jennifer Rubin makes for unlikely Amazon warrior, Patrick Bergin is on amusingly crass form as degenerate General Crassus, with jazz patch perpetrating action icon, Richard Norton robustly convincing as muscular sword master, Lucius. The production design is no less dog-eared than the tripe-laden text, but, quite frankly, this pleasingly bellicose peplum is rarely boring, and our plucky, immaculately coiffed, racily leather clad heroines righteously put up a bloody good fight! Some could say if you've Xena one battlin' Amazons B-flick, you've seen 'em all!!!! While history buffs should look elsewhere for cultural verisimilitude, ravening cheese-mongers should give, Weintraub's fiesty female-led fight flick a shot! For the sake of full trash hound transparency I went into 'Amazons & Gladiators' with ZERO expectations and was rewarded with goofy sequences of an unexpectedly zesty B-Movie piquancy!!