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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2020

Mads at his smouldering best. The story is really intriguing and holds the film together. It could have been a disaster with such limited dialogue. The acting is good too, if you are looking for a blockbuster with all the normal accompaniments look elsewhere. This has some good historical relevance, particularly to those whose still venerate Columbus as the founding father!

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T. Petcher

Slow, atmospheric, bleak and boring.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2021

I didn't much care for this film, and was shrugging my shoulders by the end of it. It is low budget, the main character does not talk, which makes the film feel quite alienating, along with the setting in a windswept rocky places and foggy weather. (filmed in a remote part of Scotland).

It is brutal, like we imagine life was in earlier times. It has some interesting symbology, but I can't tell you what it was about really, other than showing you the brutal and crazy side of humanity.

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T. Petcher

Slow, atmospheric, bleak and boring.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2021

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Charles Vasey

Home before the Leifs fall

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2010

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Is this film a mood meditation on violence or an overblown piece of self-admiring art house fluff? I think the answer must (unhelpfully) be yes to both parts. One can see where it is going geographically long before it gets there (well you can if you have read your sagas) and I suspect much the same for the fate of our travelling men and the rather strange introduction of christianity as a hate totem. The final appearance of the Skraelings was greeted as an opportunity to end what had otherwise drifting towards becoming a shoot for Vogue without the models. As befits a mood piece the photography and sound were well constructed though the wee lad's dialect may defeat some listeners.

At times one saw bits of other, in my view better, art house films hovering over the process. As an observation of what being a viking meant it had its moments. Beowulf & Grendel is a better piece of viking film I think and just as bleak. However, one moment does stick and sticks firmly, the pile of burning bodies and the captured women neatly encapsulating a time when it really was grim oop north.

However, the short piece on the making of the film opening with a dreadful yah phoning mummy to say she'd got the job as director's assistant ("Yeah, great") and the director telling us what a wacky chappy he was lead me towards the overblown conclusion. Self love may the sincerest form of love but it is not the most analytical or the wisest to reveal

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Derrick O'Rourke

Strange film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2010

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Very strange film and I hope the actors weren't paid by word because they wouldn't be getting much. The fight scenes are very impressive though and Mikkelsen gives a good performance.

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C. Elphick

Valhalla Rising

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2011

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The thin descriptive on the cover is representative of the film content. The film did not live up to my expectations, or those who watched it with me. Never judge a DVD by its cover!

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M. Wertenbach

Art for the depressed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2010

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Well I watched the movie and I am a big fan of Wining Refn & Mads Mikkelsen but this Movie is just bad taste. No real story, bad picture quality (on the DVD)and an terrible ending with no sense. Theres are just 2 Options: 1 You like the movie, or 2. you dont like it. The chance is much higher to hit option 2. Dont buy it.

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Mr. Jonathan J. Dring

Valhalla Rising

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2010

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Valhalla Rising was disappointing. While the atmosphere and symbolism is stunningly created there is much inaction and too many long pauses dwelling on unatticulated ideas. This is a film for students of film and not for entertainment.

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Richard H

Deliverance meets Apocalypse Now! - on sedatives

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2019

I was very surprised to read that this film only made $31,000 at the box office from a $5.7 million production cost. Then I watched it. How on earth did they spend $5.7 million making this? It was shot in Scotland (not an expensive place to get to or house a production team); it employed a handful of extras; the star of the film only had to use one half of one of his five senses; didn't speak a single word; and the biggest special effect was a liberal use of clay and artificial blood. The plot of this film is the perfect metaphor for Brexit (this written Feb 2019 by a Brit.) where a delusional tribal group follow a feckless mute to a non-existent promised land and the only youth involved is eventually left wondering what the hell they did to deserve this! If you like arty fringe films then this might be of interest to you. I prefer films with a plot, dialogue and a point. This film is missing all three.

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katdes

Navigation skills of Christoper Columbus

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2019

Short review:
Tat

Long review:
main actor does not speak, they can't tell the direction of the Holy Land and end up in the Americas, why not follow everyone else who was going to the HL in that period? 11th century Britain was already Christian, yet the commencement implies still battle between Pagans and Christians. Just the thousand years out lads.

Silly fight scenes, modern day Scottish accents in a film set long in the past, no context in the film just music and dark scenes, without context it means nothing, best part of film the end, so I can have my life back

I will give it some praise re. the dark and sombre setting which goes well with what the film is trying to portray, and I do like Miks Milkelsen as an actor, I doubt this was his most technically difficult role!

Another grave concern is how many have given 5 stars, obviously a few cells short upstairs.

Overall give it a miss

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K. A. Gilbert

poor...very, very...........poor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2010

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Please do not waste your money this is art-house rubbish they couldn't even be bothered with a script, beutifully shot but they may have well been stills. For you to think deeply about a subject it has to have substance there was none.

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Spike Owen

It never manages to rise above its one trick.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 June 2014

Nicolas Winding Refn directs and Mads Mikkelsen stars in this ponderous exercise in arty veneers. Refn boldly strips back the dialogue and plot to reveal a picture big on ideas but poor in execution. As the story plods along, stopping only briefly for some guttural violence now and then, it becomes evident that the makers have made a painfully boring movie. At first the drained out colour photography looks like a masterstroke of ethereal atmospherics, but this also wears off and only compounds the overall feeling of monotony that pervades the pic.

Hugely disappointing venture from a director capable of so much more. 3/10

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