As a person who loves Nordic legends, the movie title interested me and with high expectations i decided to watch. After first 30 minutes i was completely disappointed, since the movie was not about vikings and Nordic culture. It turns about to be about Kievan Rus, and only Nordic related story was the group of vikings invited to fight for the movie Hero (Vladimir). However it is not a reason to name the movie as "Viking". The second disappointment was the movie story which was unclear and uncertain. There happened a lot of actions without a certain purpose. Now after 2-hour movie watching i can not say what particularly was this movie about, whether it was about fight between brothers or it was about Christianity. In addition to these there were several elements which were not related to either Russian or Nordic culture such as boats with Greek elements, roman legionary clothes of warriors, and of course the fact of metallic water pipeline, which was invented in Russia after 12th century. As a conclusion i would suggest movie creators to conduct a research before misrepresenting the story.
Review of Viking
