This movie was not great, it certainly wasn’t bad, maybe even alright if you only take the second half into consideration, but it really just wasn’t that interesting to watch. It does alright at explaining the story and the motivations of each character, but it’s really just run of the mill standard motivations. The two guys end up taking care of the baby in order for Norway to maintain it’s independence, on top of that the main guy hunting down said baby does a good deal of murdering the protagonist’s family which only furthers the staleness. This movie is nothing special and the entire first half of it can be chalked up to political rabble, there is very little action, and the second half is pretty much all action which is pretty cool due to all the people with swords skiing at other people with swords.

This movie was made in Norway which is pretty interesting, but this version is dubbed to be English which only furthers the disconnect between what the movie is intended to be and what it actually is. I think that this movie would have been ten times better if they kept the language Norwegian and only had  English subtitles. It feels kind of like this.

The movie is just terribly average, you might like it, but if you’ve seen a movie that takes place in the middle ages and has a political problems you’ve seen this movie. Overall skip unless you really like this type of movie.

Awards :

Best Brutal Ski Battle

Participation Ribbion