re: Updated: Trying to find a movie (found it!)

Actually looks decent

I see that you found the answer, but this:

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As best I can remember this movie starts off in a desert climate where the hero is like a king or something and they sent some squad to kill his family and him but he survives ends up going on a journey, gets captured by these Druid type sorcerers, who have this combat pit, where they have this extremely large person on some kind of potion

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..almost literally describes The Beastmaster.

I was expecting an older movie. Not one from 2018.