Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014) User Reviews

Pretty high production for less than stellar excursion

[quincytheodore · 6/10 · 5 August 2015]

For a medieval fantasy flick, Northmen does look the part. It has fine cinematography and quite gory battle as the characters literally spend bulk of the movie running and fighting in nice vistas. They, however, lack the appeal or novelty to set up a grand tale it's meant to be, making the tour into foreign land a loud yet bland one.

Story revolves around a group of Vikings, or Northmen, as they journey through unfamiliar territory. The group has internal strife and ambition for riches, but none of their story is fully fleshed out. The motives or back stories, even for the antagonist role, are often glossed over. Furthermore, the movie introduces many typical characters such lost princess and the enigmatic priest, each with their own equally monotonous issue.

With stack of characters, it's unfortunate that none of them is actually interesting. The actors work with passable acting, but the script is basically told while they are in constant running. It buries the story as they roar and slash their way through. When the supposed dramatic scenes play out, chances are audience wouldn't be invested on these characters.

It does possess good visual, camera work and design. There are set pieces that offer decent skirmish, both in daylight or night time. Credit when credit is due, most movies with fantasy theme often become blurry as the fight continues after dawn, but Northmen gives good graphic and lighting even in these instances. Action is presentable as well, bit crude at times, but fits the theme nonetheless.

As an action movie, it benefits from above average presentation, however the story doesn't venture beyond the realm of mediocrity.

Good old fashioned action

[FlickChick82 · 6/10 · 12 November 2014]

This is a must see for all those who like sword&sandal movies. The plot is too simple. The story could have been a little more with twists and subplots, not to mention a more detailed characterization. You have a bunch of northmen who are on hostile turf, but the problem is you just don't care when someone is mortally wounded and about to die. There isn't enough of a background story, the history of all the characters, why are they the way they are, their motivations. As a viewer you are left wondering...but not in a good way. The action scenes and also the location are pretty much the only things that save the film. It's always entertaining to watch a well done fighting scene at least for me. One more thing the actors are easy on the eyes, which is another plus. Go see it.

Not good, by Heimdall!

[henferdeline · 4/10 · 28 January 2015]

This is, to my knowing, the first rip-off from the Vikings series.A very sad one at that....

This movie has a very shaky story line, full of unbelievable holes, weak characters and, at times, comedic acting.

You have the ever-present theme of vikings getting into Britain, this time into Scotland. OK, they are running from home, where they are at odds with the new king. So, it was easier to just grab a boat and try to reach Britain than to stay in their own land to regroup before venturing aimlessly across the sea. And they are all, at that point, unscathed, in spite of the battle they had to fight to get away.

Then they crash, losing all their weapons and gear. They are met by a patrol of superior numbers, armed and on horse. They kill all but one, that manages to escape. Only one of them gets seriously hurt. But they get a King's daughter that was with the patrol, being taken unwillingly to her marriage.

They manage to find a monk willing to help (oh, the parallelism is uncanny....). The monk does more than help, he becomes one of them. The King's daughter, as her father apparently prefers her dead so as not to weaken his political standing, also joins the troupe.

Daddy sends a platoon of murderous mercenaries to 'take care' of the situation. They are led by the younger of two brothers (the much older one is under his lead....go figure that...), a very strong fighter and more than half insane.

Well, they go dwindling each other's numbers until the final face- off, where the paradoxically good vikings win the day - just to find that Daddy brought a whole army to meet them. A whole army to meet a band of vikings. Yes.

But fear not! They jump from a very high cliff into the ocean where, instead of being crushed by the waves against the cliff walls, they find a magical boat that must have been just lying around in wait for someone to take it for a ride....

If you have nothing else to do, well, watch it.....there are swords, a bunch of guys get gruesomely killed and the pretty boy gets the pretty girl at the end. Bleargh.

Mostly a miss and mediocre.

[Hellmant · 5/10 · 18 August 2015]

'NORTHMEN: A VIKING SAGA': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)

A Viking action flick, about vikings trapped in enemy territory, directed by Claudio Fah (who also helmed the direct to video sequels 'HOLLOW MAN 2' and 'SNIPER: RELOADED') and written by Mattias Bauer and Bastian Zach (who also wrote the Swiss B movie horror flick 'ONE WAY TRIP 3D'). The film stars Tom Hopper, Ed Skrein, Charlie Murphy, Ryan Kwanten, James Norton, Ken Duken, Anatole Tubman, Johan Hegg, Leo Gregory and others. I thought it was entertaining enough, to pass the time with, but nothing special or memorable.

The film tells the story of a group of vikings, who become stranded in unfamiliar territory; when their boat crashes, on the coast of Alba in a horrific storm. They're pursued by mercenaries, sent after them by the King of Alba, as they try to make their way to a Viking settlement. They also, unintentionally, kidnap the King's daughter (Murphy). Things become very violent, quickly.

The movie has some cool action scenes; especially considering the budget, and weak storyline. The performances aren't bad either; the directing is decent and the film looks great. If Fah had just had a better script to work with (I blame Bauer and Zach), this could have been a thrilling action flick. I really wanted to like the characters, thanks to the actors, but had no reason to. I also could not get into the story, or what was going on at all, despite cool fight scenes and decent thrills. There's definitely reasons to like things about this film; but it's mostly a miss and mediocre.

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Highly Entertaining Adventure

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 4 July 2015]

During a storm, a Viking vessel sinks and the survivors are stranded on the coast of Scotland. They climb a cliff and are attacked by an army; however they defeat the enemy but one of them escapes. They find a noble woman, Inghean (Charlie Murphy), and the leader of the Vikings Asbjorn (Tom Hopper) decides to keep her to get a ransom to go to the Viking settlement Danelagh. They stumble with the Christian monk Conall (Ryan Kwanten) that helps them. Meanwhile the escapee reaches his kingdom and the king sends a group of cruel mercenaries under the command of Hjorr (Ed Skrein) and his henchman Bovarr (Anatole Taubman) to hunt the Vikings down. But Hjorr and Bovarr actually intend to kill Inghean and when they reach the Vikings, Inghean learns the true intention of Hjorr and feels that her only chance to survive is to team up with Asbjorn and his warriors.

"Northmen - A Viking Saga" is a highly entertaining adventure, with a full of action story, charismatic characters and great villains. The direction is tight, the cast has good performance and the fight choreography, locations, costumes, and special effects are excellent. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Northmen - A Viking Saga"

Directions

[kosmasp · 5/10 · 3 March 2015]

Sometimes the simple things seem to be the most difficult. Like finding your way back home. Then again, even with all the transportation possibilities today some have issues reaching their goal, let alone back when this movie is supposedly playing. It's a decent effort into the viking territory and it has the flair of movies from the 80s, when a group/handful of guys were trying to reach a destination or just try to stay alive.

The effects are good, the camera is nice (copying the middle land moves we've learned to love from Peter Jackson, relishing on sights and so forth), the acting is OK too, considering the genre this is playing at and all the clichés involved. It won't be hard to guess what will be coming up most of the time, mixing a lot of known and working formulas, this is a pleasant time waster ...

Not bad !

[twentyhonor · 7/10 · 12 October 2014]

I watched Northmen in a sneak preview in a German cinema, so please don't wonder at my language skills.

I really like such epic movies so i had great expectations. The characters are distinguishable and the main actor has the necessary charisma. The plot is easy, so don't expect to much ! Thats the only thing what i dislike about the movie.

The cinematography and the high-resolution graphics with great recordings from swiss and south African landscape create a heated atmosphere.

Especially the character of a monk is well acted.

All in all the movie is no must see because of the simple story, but the distincitv characters, the good recordings of the landscape, and well acted fighting scenes make the movie to a Sunday evening activity.

decent

[Kirpianuscus · 14 June 2016]

running. fights. vikings. and a last scene who impose a prequel. not surprising but decent and this could be a real good point. because it respects expectations of its public. an action film in clothes of history. inspired but the series Vikings. using, in not bad manner, a lot of clichés. remembering Lord of Ring in few scenes. and being an interesting try to propose not a new story but a decent exercise to tell it. all is well known. but the desire to be more than one of many action movies , proposing a story of survive, friendship and crumbs of faiths is a nice option. and the acting, far to be impressive, is not real bad. in essence, a correct cake respecting , in each detail, the recipes of genre. and the flavor of fairy tale, and the references to Odyssey are virtues for a film about vikings and theirs adventures in foreign land. only strange fact - maybe the title . but the new parts of a possible trilogy could save appearances.

Awful movie

[rubenlorentzen · 1/10 · 9 March 2015]

What to say? Holy crap what a shitty movie this is. Wasted almost 2 hours of my life on this awful movie. Everything was wrong. These renegades hired by the king to hunt them down, pathetic gang. They ran into fights with these northmen and the northmen killed them one by one but there was a steady flow of these renegades pouring out from the forest!!! Where in the flying f... did they come from? It went from dark night into sunny morning in a blink of an eye. One of the northmen fell 1000!! meters down, and guess what? he returned later unharmed ready to fight. In the end the viking leader dived 200 meters in a ferocious ocean and suddenly appeared with a boat!! This is just some of the flaws in this utter garbage of a movie. STAY AWAY!

A whole lot of running...

[paul_haakonsen · 6/10 · 16 June 2016]

"Northmen: A Viking Saga" does offer some good, solid entertainment. And it is a movie that appeals mostly to a male audience. And chances are that if you like the "Vikings" series, then you would also find enjoyment in "Northmen: A Viking Saga".

However, the story, albeit straight forward and very simplistic, offers very little in terms of layering a profound movie experience. Why? Well, because the storyline was just too simple, truth be told. The movie is about a group of marooned vikings washed ashore and having to get from point A to point B in order to reach a safe haven. And the path between points A and B is a perilous one, of course.

What works very well in the movie is the fighting and action sequences, as they are nicely choreographed and equally nicely executed on the screen. But also the costumes and outfits were working well in favor of the movie, because they had a very authentic feel to them. And the environment where the movie was filmed also added a great deal of enjoyment to the movie.

The characters in the movie were nicely detailed, although most of them were very generic in terms of what has previously been seen in the viking movie genre. That being said, don't get me wrong, because the people cast to portray the characters did good jobs with their characters, despite not having the most elaborate of scripts to work with. And while the soothsayer character was indeed interesting, it just seemed a bit out of place, with those supernatural powers, as it turned the movie into a fantasy movie, and not really adhering to the reality of the age in which the movie was taking place. A good or bad thing? Well, I did enjoy it, as it was nicely done. But had they opted for something else, then the movie would have had a whole other atmosphere to it. And also the monk character was somewhat of a sore thumb, especially since he was apparently so much more martially trained than everyone else. It just seemed a bit out of place.

"Northmen: A Viking Saga" is an enjoyable movie for sure. Just don't expect anything extraordinary. And while it is not fully up to the level of the "Vikings" series, then it is still a good addition to the viking movie genre.

A lot better than expected

[wimboeree · 3/10 · 24 February 2015]

Imagine, you're tired, you're bored, but you don't want to sleep yet. You put on this movie and you think 'Well, it probably sucks and if so, I'll eject the disk and go to sleep'. I thought that at least.

But I was pleasantly surprised. Okay, the story isn't that great, sometimes you notice that the budget is a little low and the baddies look like they come out of an 80's movie, even wearing skulls to make it clear that they are truly the baddies. But besides that it also has great fight scenes, good acting (despite the quality of writing) and fantastic scenery. Which kinda surprised me for a non-Anglo-made film.

Of course you notice that the cinematography isn't Lord of the Rings quality, but it's not bothersome, some parts are even really easy on the eye. And the fight scenes, OH, the fight scenes. They truly are fantastically coordinated, and the actors obviously tried to make it look as realistic as possible. The only thing that bothered me was that one of the bad guys seemingly wakes up from the dead to be killed one last time. But besides that it is a fun watch.

If you are bored, or in for a classic action/adventure movie, I for one recommend watching this.

7/10

Quality production

[thomascosgrove · 8/10 · 2 January 2016]

Excellent cinematography and great cast elevate this well above the usual fair. The performances are strong throughout and Tom Hopper is a great leading man in the style of Chris Hemsworth. Overall a very good adventure movie directed with great flair by Claudio Fah. Looks like a much bigger budget than it was. Fight scenes handled with confidence. The production values were consistently high class, with notable scenes in forests, caves and swamps all looking suitably authentic and not remotely TV standard like so many other things. Comparisons to the TV show seem unfair as this stands on its own merits as a story. The TV show often feels padded and stretched whereas this moves at a good pace and doesn't outstay its welcome.

Action, adventure and fights about a band of Vikings crossing enemy lines

[ma-cortes · 7/10 · 5 December 2020]

Fairly elaborate Viking adventure but without historical perspective , packing bloody action , emotion , drama, brief romance and overwhelming battles . Norse Opera dealing with a group of Vikings : Tom Hopper, James Norton, Ken Dunken, among others, are shipwrecked at the Scotland coast, then a panicked race begins . There they meet a princess : Charlie Murphy, about to marry , as well as a Catholic priest, Ryan Kwanten, with real fighting skills. Then they are relentlessly pursued by an army of local warriors : Ed Skrein, Anatole Taubman, who will stop at nothing to kill them. The losers will pay with their lives. There's no time to bleed. In exile a hero will rise.

Viking adventure full of noisy action, thrills, chills, visceral violence, sword-play and impressive battles. A well-done in comic-book level costume adventure with non-stop action from start to finish , resulting to be entertaining enough . It contains unstoppable action with merciless fights and chases with no rest, in which the small bunch of Vikings are attacked, assaulted, besieged at a tower and ultimately surrounded next to a cliff. The flick being played by a good cast of notorious actors as Tom Hopper, Ryan Kwanten, James Norton, Ed Skrein, and only woman : Charlie Murphy, all of them are pretty well. The motion picture was competently directed by Claudio Fah at his best . This filmmaker is a craftsman expert on sequels , such as : Hollow Man 2 , Sniper : Ultimate Kill ,Sniper : Reloaded , Beyond Valkyrie , among others.

This basic epic costumer belongs to Viking subgenre that was especially successful in the Sixties , there are various films such as : the classic The Vikings 1958 with Kirk Douglas , Tony Curtis , Janet Leigh . The long Shipts by Jack Cardiff with Richard Widmark , Sidney Poitier . The Last of the Vikings 1961 by Mario Bava with Edmund Purdom, George Ardisson . Knives of the Avenger 1966 by Mario Bava with Cameron Mitchell , Fausto Tozzi . The Norsemen 1978 by Charles B Pierce with Cornel Wilde , Mel Ferrer . The Viking Queen 1966 by Don Chaffey with Don Murray , Andrew Keir . The Viking Sagas 1995 by Michael Chapman with Ralph Moeller , Steve Ole Thorsen. The 13th Warrior 1999 by John McTiernan with Antonio Banderas , Diane Venora, Tony Curran, Omar Shariff , among others .

They're Coming,Duh!

[clonaris · 1/10 · 26 February 2015]

WARNING spoilers ahead.I watched this movie with the purpose of writing a review at the end of viewing.This is the only reason I finished watching right till the bitter end.This is another movie wanting to cash in on the highly successful "Vikings" television series.This movie is basically a bad guys chase good guys run type movie.

Huge waves shipwrecked but many saved their heavy unsinkable swords ha ha. Big beach stretching left and right but leader says "climb the cliffs" so they all climb the cliffs and don't bother to find any easier route inland ha ha. After practicing bare hand fjord climbing in Norway for five years this band of serious vertical cliff climbers, with no ropes, rigging, hammers or spikes make it to the top, all intact before sunset ha ha.

First Battle with the natives who have horses and bows and arrows but have not studied the Art of War 101 at school so go straight in rather than use their arrows from a distance at the mostly unarmed Vikings.ha ha.Predictably the Vikings get their weapons from the locals and proceed to carve them up.The box cart has a special Bertha in it worth a lot of money as a hostage as we find out the main bad Viking has a name the sounds like Urine,haha.

The forty or so heavily armoured mercenaries ride out to intercept the Vikings but we all know they don't stand a chance against 6 or 7 Vikings on foot,with one set of bow and arrows,no helmets ,shields or armour,in a foreign country they do not know the terrain of.Haha.

Bad Viking Urine gets called a turd (well that is how it originally sounded to me)and gets angry.ha ha.He lives all his life as a Urine and he loses it over one floating turd.Ha ha. As soon as they arrive at the monks bed and breakfast inn the order "and get a fire started " is carried out almost immediately in an era where matches lighters and other instant fire making devices had not been invented yet,ha ha.Mercenary throws fire on roof of stone tower and stone magically begins to burn .ha ha.

As the chase begins the Vikings in all their haste have time to construct mercenary killing traps to "slow them down".ha ha.The beautiful Lady from the Box is called Lady Ingham.In Australia that is a brand of chicken sold in shops for consumers.So this chick has the art of foretelling the future so she exclaims:"they're coming!" Duh and ha ha.

Ernest Borgnine Viking survives 1000m. fall to return and fight again.Wow,didn't see that coming.Final fight scene in a Scottish bog where main mercenary sinks to his death just like this movie.Hero Viking saved by chick Ingham just in time to witness Carpathian mercenary emerge from bog,Carrie like,to be smitten again obviously by the Hero.

Survivors so far;McHales Navy type,The Turd \Urine,Hero,Monk,and chick.Only one little part left when loving father and his army of kiltless Scotsmen(I did not see one kilt in the whole movie)emerge to intercept the fleeing party.So am I surprised to see this merry band of Vikings jump 1000m.from a cliff into a 5 m.swell and find a boat ready to take them to safety ?No ,I was surprised a flying saucer didn't appear to catch them mid air and spirit them away to Copenhagen as all good fairy tales should end.

some B sword work

[SnoopyStyle · 5/10 · 2 August 2017]

Asbjorn and his Viking men are stranded in Scotland after losing their boat. They encounter a band of soldiers transporting princess Inghean to her wedding. After a fierce battle, they take her hostage. She has special powers of perception. King Dunchaid sends his men after them. They find a Christian monk who could guide them home.

It's a lower budget action adventure. It has no big names. The production and CGI is lower level. It's a rather simple chase fight movie. The plot does take a few questionable turns. It needs work to make it more exciting and the characters more compelling. The lead has limited charisma. This has some watch-ability value but not great even as a B movie.

The Vikings never disappoints me!!

[elo-equipamentos · 7/10 · 16 August 2018]

I have a bunch of DVD & Blu-ray over Vikings saga, those brave warriors quite often didn't upset me, this is another fine picture made on location in South Africa is an above average production, without those countless special effects on blue screen, here l really noticed just a few, the cave shooting is real, waterfall and many wide open places in fact matching with Scotland were the story happens, althought the casting are practically unknown, they made a decent job, weren't in the same level of the series Vikings of course, but it a easy amusement in this small size scale that won't regret the true movie lovers!!

Resume:

First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: Blu-ray / Rating: 7

Frankly absurd

[iangoldsmith-67780 · 2/10 · 11 April 2022]

I'd like to leave the review at 'frankly absurd', but sadly I have to say more. So, poorly acted, badly written and... frankly absurd.

At one point the vikings are being pursued by a pack of angry Saxons (I think) and the Saxons start off being maybe ten, then a few get killed and they are down to maybe six and then suddenly there are twelve of them. They seem to have a magic supply of men and horses and the vikings need no food or water.

Too much nonsense to list sadly. A medieval crossbow, and a ninja monk though are among my faves.

A Decent Movie. Better Than Most

[rlhibdon · 7/10 · 18 October 2021]

Is it Great? Nope, but way better than average. A very pleasant surprise to be sure. Above average plot. Decent enough acting. But the cinematography is first rate! It is quite gritty. Some of the panorama scenes are definitely less than stellar, but more than adequate. I enjoyed it thoroughly, and have watched it several times. T reminds meof an "old fashioned" adventure from the golden era of movie-making.

DAMN IT ASBJORN. I' M A WARRIOR NOT A CLIMBER!

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 19 November 2018]

A small boat full of exiled Vikings get marooned on Scotland, which doesn't want them either. Asbjorn (Tom Hopper) leads the group who happen to defeat a troop of soldiers and capture the princess (Charlie Murphy) the film's sole eye candy. They plan to ransom her off to her father for enough money to buy their way into a Viking settlement in the south. The plans go bad when they find out the rescue army wants to kill the princess, which they claim are the orders of the King. The Vikings are aided by a fighting monk (Ryan Kwanten) with a staff. Oh yes the princess can read the ground too. Ed Skrein leads the Scots who appear to be one chromosome away from Orcs.

The film consists of Vikings running away from Scots, getting caught by Scots, fighting Scots and running away from Scots. The love story doesn't develop. The fight scenes weren't bad, but not memorable. Acting isn't bad for people who grunt.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. Charlie Murphy cleavage. Tom Hopper beefcake.

What Might Have Been (All caps for us old military types)

[lwmtem · 7/10 · 11 January 2017]

Imagine you recently discovered that there is a strong possibility you may gave descended from a Viking King. Your history minded self and a band of men are caught in a storm in a Longship that was breaking apart near land. You survive by washing up on a scant beach with straight massive cliffs as your only escape before the high tide returns.

Exhausted, most make it to the top to rest and recuperate, but you have been spotted by a small band of armed men who take you as hostiles and engage you in combat leaving behind a surprise in a horse drawn wagon with a princess inside while one rides away to raise the alarm. The landscape of mountains, gorges, moors and an unusual stone tower created a feeling of a lookout post that could have been seen in the movie "Willow" From this, a series of small bloody engagements cuts down the numbers on both sides as it is apparent the royal princess is in as much danger as you. In a time when people were much more in tune with the nature, certain sensitivities to the earth may have inspired some to read seemingly supernatural signs of the earth as graphically displayed by the princess with hand bloodied, then not as it gave her insight to advise the leader that they must move ahead and out of danger.

No doubt the combat sequences would have challenged the endurance of even the strongest men, but how can one sit there watching without some adrenaline flow, especially when those killed on the bad guy side are replaced from the unknown source as if they didn't read their script as they resume the chase and the fight.

This movie didn't start out so captivating, but seemed to keep me involved each time I started to change channels. Rates a 5 or 6, but since I was dragging my own Viking baggage along in thought, I boost it to a 7!

amateur script

[jackfoley-37588 · 4/10 · 19 September 2020]

If you asked a schoolkid to write a script then its this. supposedly set in scotland. dodgy vicar a expert in Samaria stick fighting, scottish warriors dressed in matching armour & headress like something out of conan & led by some pantomine bad guy with a pencil moustache & huge hair parting.A princess who the vikings took hostage who was just hanging around a deserted clifftop with armed guard ? Why. A huge scene was the escape across a old rope bridge ,they cut & escape then the chuckle brothers go, OH theres a path across all along.Why have a bridge there then. Awful ,dodgy, only consulation was the northmen themselves. Could of been good movie but for amateur made up as you go along script.

Norse action D&D style

[greg_bbb · 9/10 · 5 January 2019]

High production values and a very good cast make this a movie that I watched several times and will again. This is not a ripoff of any tv series and feels more like a d&d adventure w/fantasy elements. Sure, there are unbelievable items but no more than any other movie so such criticism is silly. The Vikings are the heroic figures in this tale and there is a fighting monk who joins them. Several actors did great work here as did the director as this could have been a real dud in lesser hands.

An okay movie

[uselessDM · 6/10 · 29 January 2017]

This movie is okay. That's it. It has okay acting, okay action, okay special effects and so on. I guess if you are really into this kind of movie, you will like it a lot, because even though I'm not, I enjoyed it enough. The story is nothing to speak of, even if I would spell it out completely I wouldn't put a spoiler warning, because its blatantly obvious where it goes after five minutes, if not after looking at the poster. I think one thing that is missing is some really great scene that elevated the movie and be it only by being really cheesy. It maybe sounds strange, but I think this movie is too dignified for it's own good. Also, a better villain would really help. Although I kinda liked him, he was pretty bland beyond that he was a good fighter and that's it basically. Again, a bit more cheese would have helped make this movie more fun to watch because it is just a pretty standard affair plot wise. But, what I would emphasize, you get what your are promised with that film, and in the end, that's what counts.

Unwatchable Tripe

[davidheffernan-34594 · 1/10 · 26 October 2015]

Awful film, terrible acting, every acting cliché you would associate with action films is used and badly at that.

Whilst films of this genre can be enjoyable without any factual basis, a good story line is required to provide the entertainment. The story in this film is very basic and seems to consist of creating opportunities for the villains to act really evil or the heroes to make silly monologues about their past or how they should have died in a recent battle (they also stare into space for speeches). You won't believe the conviction of the actors at all....the acting really is awful.

I would have liked to mention that there was at least one good point, but honestly I can't think of one, the special effects are limited to one scene, the fight scenes are bizarre, maybe one good point, there is a spectacular scene at the very end of the film of coastal cliffs and rough seas.

Really not good if you know anything about history...

[macinfo · 1/10 · 24 April 2015]

I had hoped for so much better! This was an appalling film...hammy sets, dreadful innaccuracies both in costume and setting. Meant to be in Scotland (I am Scottish) and I have never seen such inauthentic locations. Historical facts are dodgey, costumes not good, miss-chosen cast! After seeing such a magnificent interpretation of Viking life in TV series Vikings...this was laughable! SORRY GUYS, but in the UK we are a bit more clued up about it - it happened to us! This film was an insult to Scandinavian Vikings and Scots alike! I have travelled extensively between Denmark and Sweden to research viking history which is very much intermingled with Scottish culture - how can you get it so wrong? Where were the locations? Not Dcotlsnd and that is obvious!!! Wanted to like this - complete rubbish!