VividSimon Simply Perfect

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Steineded How sad is this?

IncaWelCar In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.

mccarthyos There is not much to say about this tedious film. The production values are all there: it is well shot and the battles scenes are well managed – but there is little else to this film. The cast is competent, and we now have to have a fierce and beautiful young woman in these stories; an essential ingredient these days. The film's greatest weakness, in fact the great error in the production, is the excessive use of slow motion. It is self indulgent and infuriating; all because the director wanted to make it all seem so meaningful, when all it did was make it so dull. Of course, it may have been that he wanted to turn a 60 minute film into a longer one. The motivation is unclear.

steve_coach If you are going to base a story on a historical event at least make an effort to get the facts right. Yes I know there is the usual disclaimer in the credits but:1. Bad start. In the opening intro it says William the Conquerer ordered "The Harrowing" of the North. No, it was called "The Harrying of the North" in 1069/70.2. There were no stone castles with concentric walls and round towers. The Normans built "Motte and Bailey" Castles eg A large mound with wooden fortifications surrounded by a wooden curtain wall. The Tower of London (known as "The White Tower) was built after the period of this film and all stone castle followed this. They all had square towers for the next 150 or so years.3. In the film the soldiers appear to be dressed in silver foil instead of mail. They look like turkeys before the oven. I know real mail is expensive but really!!Nice try Messrs. Weedon,Read and Unthank - 2/10 Must try better next time. History is far too important to be treated like this. Perhaps a true telling of the Norman Conquest itself?!! But can we trust you?As for the lighting, music and acting. It's all about the story!!!

fcarraldo The Vikings TV series seems to be spinning off a sub genre of 1000 AD action shows. At least that is how I see this one. Cross Ragnar with the High Plains Drifter. Distilled Man with No Name with a Ragnar L. haircut. Wish they had explained how a Norman boy transformed into a Viking bad-ass. Love the berserkers by the way. I like the style, the weird electronic score. It is more like a dream world than realistic.The colors are black and white.The landscape science fiction. Not even true to history.There were no stone castles three years after 1066! No originality to the plot. Really it is the classic a stranger comes to town.But that's OK I was entertained. I like it for what it is.

GooseFiend Its kind of a Ragnar pulls a Seven Samurai in a muddy village in England. The film appears to have real depth and substance at first but then after a while you realize almost everything is in slow mo and it becomes obvious its a young director who is ever so slightly off the mark. Despite that there was something about this that made me want to like it and the production itself was impressive although I started to question the use of throat-slitting after about the tenth time. Others have criticized the movie for lacking a plot but I think there was a decent story in there it just didn't really punctuate through the violence. I especially liked the younger brother villain that didn't just die at the beginning. ////SPOILER ALERT////// I had all but given up on this movie as trife predictable male fantasy but the ending kind of brought me back in. It came so close to being great but left too many villagers alive. I thought finishing it with basically everyone dying except the male lead would have been a perfect statement about revenge and almost Shakespearian. I guess that is kind of what they were going for but again they just didn't quite punctuate that point and make it hit home with the audience. Like maybe the guy should have felt somewhat guilty at the end especially because he could have made a difference if he wasn't late for the final fight. I am hoping the character will go on to bring more misery and death to people already dealing with misery and death but I doubt we will see a sequel.I'm glad i watched it and I found it interesting. The slow mo really put me off after a while but some of the characters were interesting and not what i was expecting overall. I'm interested to see what else this director does because with a few tweaks here and there this could have been a bad ass flick. As far as copycat movies go it was half way to solid.