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Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
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Anya Taylor-Joy
Olga of the Birch Forest
Alexander Skarsgård
Amleth
Ethan Hawke
King Aurvandil War-Raven
Kate Dickie
Halldóra the Pict
Gustav Lindh
Thórir the Proud
Claes Bang
Fjölnir the Brotherless
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
Thorfinnr Tooth-Gnasher
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
He-Witch
Nicole Kidman
Queen Gudrún
Willem Dafoe
Heimir the Fool
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Takes the mythology to another level.
Very strong one.
asamed
It's not fluent at all, I could barely finish it.
jehejoa
The script is very good, the visual effects are magnificent, but the movie ends until it develops in itself, so when you start watching the film's introduction, development and conclusion stage, you get lost in the flow of the story, but you see that the movie is finished, there is no proper war scene, I think it's a good movie, but it managed to finish itself.
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Amid some fantastical mythical weirdness, this is one of the greatest Nordic adventures ever made." though on a vastly more ambitious scale, bloody and deliciously violent.
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agshinbadalov
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Takes the mythology to another level.
Very strong one.
asamed
It's not fluent at all, I could barely finish it.
jehejoa
The script is very good, the visual effects are magnificent, but the movie ends until it develops in itself, so when you start watching the film's introduction, development and conclusion stage, you get lost in the flow of the story, but you see that the movie is finished, there is no proper war scene, I think it's a good movie, but it managed to finish itself.
proxy
Amid some fantastical mythical weirdness, this is one of the greatest Nordic adventures ever made." though on a vastly more ambitious scale, bloody and deliciously violent.
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If you are the type of people that likes Viking movies, then it is a must watch. Awesome setting, scenery, characters and plot well developed , sounds, combination of drama, superticious, highly violent moments.
Elkrie
7.9
DramanticThrill
Alexander, oh my what an actor. Like father like son. Its a revenge story and whats a revenge story without thrill, twist, good fight scenes. This movie gives you everything. The script and direction is top notch.
Loved it♥️
shaban
I was eagerly waiting to watch this as I think Eggers is one of the most (if not THE most) unique voices in Hollywood right now. However, although I liked the movie - I think a lot of care and attention went into making it - it felt like it didn't quite deliver to the level I was expecting. Visually commandable yet emotionally distant, 'The Northman' is one of those films that leaves you satisfied up to a certain point, and again, with the grieving over, "It could have been better."
One of my problems with the film is that, despite Eggers' tremendous efforts for it not to, the movie feels like a straight medieval flick decored with these weird Lynchian-like moments. They often don't fit as naturally as Robert was hopping, and you get the impression he put them only to show, "I'm Robert Eggers. I make weird high art stuff." And this is not the case of me not liking the weird and not lucid moments in films in general - I think 'The Green Knight' is the best film of the decade so far -, it's just that this particular film doesn't wear well the hallucinogenic flare with which Eggers adorns it. Yet, this isn't a ruins-the-film problem. It's just that it could've done better without a few of those or if it would've approached them differently.
Another thing I didn't like was the acting. Well, not that I didn't like it more than I thought it wasn't extraordinary or even impressive. The thing is, I had heard so much about Skarsgård's physical performance, but I thought it wasn't anything remarkable, and I'm reducing all the hype I've heard about it to just an "OK performance." But my real disappointment came from Kidman and Taylor-Joy. Because, yes, I had heard Alexander does excellently in this film, but I had also heard he gets overshadowed by the actresses in the scenes opposite them. I failed to see that. I think the entire cast does a fine job in their given roles, but there's nothing memorable here regarding the performances.
I realize this is coming off as a highly critical review, and it's giving the impression of me not liking the movie, but that's not the case. So I'm going to change tones and talk about what I thought Eggers gets and does admirably here. I want to praise Robert's ability to conjure frames. He is such a virtuoso when it comes to constructing shots. If you've seen 'The Lighthouse,' you know what I'm talking about for that film is a masterpiece if we're talking camera-work and lighting. And Eggers approaches 'The Northman' with the same amount of rigidness when it comes to the way he shoots it. Some of the shots here look like shots taken out of storyboards, and they look like art pieces on their own. That shows how well-realized Eggers' idea for the film is in his head from a visual standpoint. I'm in love with some of the shots here.
I was hoping for Eggers to deliver better than in his other films with this one, but I think 'The Northman' is the worst out of his filmography. That's not saying that this is a bad film because it's not, and that should say a lot about what a great filmmaker Eggers is. But he's not in a progressive strike with this last. I'm left a little wanting. Anyway, Eggers has a long way to go, and he's on the right path to, at least, being distinct and original in the current climate of American movie-making, and I believe his pictures will soon hit the register they should.
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