Northmen - A Viking Saga [German Version]

This was a surprising good adventure film. As for the mercenaries from the Carpathians, serving the Scottish King, in hunting down our Viking shipwrecked survivors I am guessing that they were either Wallachians (modern Romanians) or a Slavic group such as the Ruthenians (modern West Ukrainians, the Polane (modern Poles who at the time also employed Wolin Vikings as mercenaries) or Slovenes (modern Slovenians). It is sheer lazy scholarship not to make this clear. The East Europeans are and always have been separately identified. If they are to be part of a movie then let's make this clear. In terms of historical context the only known East European mercenaries fighting in early Britain were mounted warriors from Poland provided to King Cannut by his grandfather, Mieszko the First of the Kingdom of Poland to help in the conquest of England.

I quite enjoyed this film despite a lot of negative reviews and ratings. I think we are always expecting those top-notch Hollywood movies and rarely give the others a chance. I didn't find fault with this film at all - better than lots of other films out there, way better. The only thing I had to "get my head around" is watching typical South African scenery and vegetation and telling myself they are in Scotland...although, after a while I forgot about that (other than the odd, wow, it really is beautiful here) and just watched for watching pleasure. Someone made a comment that the "romance" is under-developed...but what do you expect in those circumstances? A love story while fighting for your life?

Loved all the Viking box sets so another good film.

Tremendous film, seriously exciting & really well done. Ed Skrein makes a fabulous baddie & the action is terrific. I was spellbound from the first moment, which doesn’t happen often. If you enjoyed LOTR, Vikings, GoT or The Last Kingdom then this is definitely for you.

Not bad all round ; found it on the lengthy side but fair enough acting, lots action, perhaps overdone. Plot was shaky, and ending predictable in many ways. (Good guy beats bad guy). Tom Hopper was the lead here, and he, physically, towered over the others.A convincing Viking of his day, or so I imagined from tales at school of the fearsome Norse raiders and pillagers of our coasts. Not a movie I would rush to view again soon, but it did pass a wet winter's evening.

This was a classic

Although this was only made a few years ago now, there are modern online series such as Black Sails etc that can carry off these kind of story lines much better with much more depth and also make them look a lot better - budget films need to work much harder these days to not be compared unfavourably to series made by online streaming services. That all said, this is still a decent enough budget Viking drama. It looks pretty good most of the time for its budget - a lot better than most at this end of the scale - with some nice scenery thrown in and just about everyone puts in a fairly good performance. The storyline is simple enough to just switch off and enjoy but also enough of a story there to engage with and stay motivated to see it through to the end. It's basically Vikings Vs Scottish mercs with the Vikings as the underdogs trying to escape an island they've landed on by mistake during a storm whilst hoping to carry out some good old fashioned plundering of coastal monasteries in Britain. They have a little bit of unexpected help along the way and there are lots of will-they-wont-they make it moments as the Scotts hunt them down. The film might not be spectacular but I didn't ever get bored and found it easy to stay interested enough until the end, with the only real annoyance being Ed Srein's mouth - not sure if he'd just had some kind of dental surgery or if he thought he was giving the mercenary character he was playing some extra depth, but it didn't work for me. Otherwise, not bad!

This is a great movie , edge of your seat stuff right to the very end . A cracking yarn. I thought the whole movie was brilliant. 10/10 .

This is a great movie... Someone else said there was no story to this movie; not sure what movie they were watching, because there most certainly is a story. In a way, this is like the old Robin Hood story... we have a fighting monk and a group of out-casts, and even a woman very similar to Maid Marian... but, this is a group of lost and shipwrecked Vikings, rather than outlaws living in the forest, who have to fight to survive and get back out to sea. This is just an all round fun movie. The costumes look great and the acting is well done...

Not "Vikings" but a very good effort and good quality, acting and accuracy..enjoyed

Welch eine Überraschung. Note 1 und einer meiner Lieblingsfilme

Good Movie!

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