Northmen: A Viking Saga (2015)

Love these kind of movies and the action is good but that is it. I never seen a movie that the count of the warriors decrease after getting killed and than in a later scene they come back in multiples. Where did they come from?! Than the lead Viking is in some kind of quicksand and the young princess just takes his arm and pulls him up with no effort. Some other scenes like the Viking archer who was killing them easily but stops and runs. Why?! It is an open field and he could of taken out at least a half dozen warriors. Many other scenes are just not believable even for these kind of movies. Was totally disappointed.

At first I thought this movie was a half-decent, easy-to-watch Viking action flick with some terrible issues but a couple of redeeming aspects, and I was going to review it a such.But then I watched a couple of scenes again as I was writing this review.I realized I had it all wrong! This movie is meant to be a spoof!! It's trying to do for the Viking action flick genre, what "Vampires Suck" did for the vampire genre, or what "Airplane!" did for the disaster movie genre!!! How did I figure out it's meant to be a spoof? Because it's well-made technically, but gets too much wrong to be a real Viking movie. Far too much.For example, look at the character of the princess. At first she pretends to not speak their language. Then all of a sudden she speaks fluent Viking, with a lovely Scottish accent. Then, it turns out she has frequent prophetic visions. Then we discover she's also an expert healer who knows how to prevent gangrene. And she recognizes the herb she needs for it, growing right there, within arm's reach! But that's not all! She is also an expert archer!! This gal's far too much of an over-achiever for us to take her seriously as a Viking-era Scottish princess. She's clearly meant to be a parody.It doesn't stop there. In the battle scene on the moor, she's been knocked out cold by an attacker who miraculously seems to have forgotten to kill her. Even though killing her is the bad guys' main agenda. How do we know she hasn't been killed? Because she turns up again later in that scene, just in time to save the hero from a nasty death!Then there's that huge, sheer cliff that the Vikings have to climb after they've survived a horrible shipwreck and can barely sit up straight.Then when they get to the top, instead of resting, they immediately encounter an enemy force, right there, unavoidably close and heading, lemming-like, towards them and the cliff. They're outnumbered 4 to one including many on horseback, yet in their exhausted state our heroes manage to kill all but one of their attackers with only a couple of Viking casualties. It's a terrific fight scene, but it needs too much suspension of disbelief.Surely we're meant to be laughing?But we're not, even a little bit.Unfortunately this movie takes itself too seriously to work as comedy.It's not a spoof.Pity.It could have been hilarious.As it is, it's nothing more than a second-rate, easy-to-watch, Viking action flick.

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.

This movie was downright awesome, just AWESOM! I had low expectations, but man this movie was really good.I am a guy who rates movies slightly differently. I try to take it into context what it is, the budget and I like action movies with good plot thrown in.This movie is made for guys who like Lord of the Rings, and movies about vikings and adventure. The adventure being can they survive being hunted by the king.This is what I call a man's movie. Guys who love action films will love this. The characters are likable, and given the budget, some of the acting and stunts pulled off were pretty good.THe movie made characters likable which is important, so in the end you are pulling for them to make it.I am not sure if their is a sequel or if their is meant to be one, but this is must watch MOVIE.I give this a 9.5 out of 10. Pleasantly surprised.