I think this is one of the worst pictures ever made about Vikings without Kirk Douglas. There is no reason to watch this movie except for the artistic Viking religious symbolic vision/dream sequences that the director uses.
The Plot is older than snow. A rich young prince is a-partying with his war-worn brave powerful father, who is teaching him how to grow up to be a heroic royal personage. Suddenly...Dad gets whacked, Mom gets carried-off and our young prince escapes death and swears revenge against the regicidal maniacs who ruined the party. That's it. Been done a hundred times.
So what makes this different? Nothing. There is a lot of corny dialogue and a bunch of horrible accents. He grows up, comes back, and as an unknown unrecognized entity, makes an impression, gets a love interest. Things get amped up with the dream sequences about Odin and his Ravens, Valhalla, and a bunch of other weird Viking crap. At the end, he goes for revenge....because after all that was his fate.
The movie is well directed, there are annoying Chapters with Viking Runes that are translated for each step of the story. There is Willem Dafoe, doing crazy Viking, which isn't a big reach for him. There is the Ice Queen of Botoxia, Nicole Kidman, whose strange frozen visage and giant inflated plastic surgery lips are a visual distraction in a Viking story. Everybody else tries for a tough guy nordic act...and it was actually done better by. Travis Fimmel in the Viking TV show. Alexander Skarsgård is not a bad actor, but in this movie its jus about him being buff and pumped up. Anya Taylor-Joy is named Olga, so she goes for a bad Russian Accent instead of a Nordic one. She does a good job for the most part as the love interest.
The whole thing is just weird and mostly boring. It doesn't go anywhere. For me it dragged, was slow moving, and just seemed like something that had been done before.
The Plot is older than snow. A rich young prince is a-partying with his war-worn brave powerful father, who is teaching him how to grow up to be a heroic royal personage. Suddenly...Dad gets whacked, Mom gets carried-off and our young prince escapes death and swears revenge against the regicidal maniacs who ruined the party. That's it. Been done a hundred times.
So what makes this different? Nothing. There is a lot of corny dialogue and a bunch of horrible accents. He grows up, comes back, and as an unknown unrecognized entity, makes an impression, gets a love interest. Things get amped up with the dream sequences about Odin and his Ravens, Valhalla, and a bunch of other weird Viking crap. At the end, he goes for revenge....because after all that was his fate.
The movie is well directed, there are annoying Chapters with Viking Runes that are translated for each step of the story. There is Willem Dafoe, doing crazy Viking, which isn't a big reach for him. There is the Ice Queen of Botoxia, Nicole Kidman, whose strange frozen visage and giant inflated plastic surgery lips are a visual distraction in a Viking story. Everybody else tries for a tough guy nordic act...and it was actually done better by. Travis Fimmel in the Viking TV show. Alexander Skarsgård is not a bad actor, but in this movie its jus about him being buff and pumped up. Anya Taylor-Joy is named Olga, so she goes for a bad Russian Accent instead of a Nordic one. She does a good job for the most part as the love interest.
The whole thing is just weird and mostly boring. It doesn't go anywhere. For me it dragged, was slow moving, and just seemed like something that had been done before.
