hsimpleton Okay- Where do I begin? 1) This "spaceman"Kainan (One-note, ham actor Jim Caviezel) who is from the FUTURE/ANOTHER WORLD? crashes to earth back in 709 AD...with a "alien" on board that killed off his family/village, and it gets away to kill up these poor Viking bozos. At first he speaks a whole other unknown language when he uses his high-tech equipment to map his location, but that disappears as soon as he is captured/tied up/taken prisoner by the primitive "Vikings" who seem to think that he, alone, is responsible for clawing/eating the crap out of a TOTAL village?? Oh, and he also had time to burn it, too...ALONE...ALL BY HIS LONESOME. Whatever. On with the narrative of this steaming pile...2) Predictables: Old King w/a good heart (John Hurt), princess-daughter (Sophia Myles) that can fight like a man/hates her husband-to-be/and who is the ONLY decent-looking chick in the clan/falls for Caviezel (who, also, is easy on the eyes), the village "hero" (that is, until ole Jimbo arrives, "wink, wink") is some long-haired dude who tries his best to keep his future wifey at bay, but nope, she bounces with JC. Ron Perlman shows up/blows up as an enemy King...but then he joins in with them minutes after BRUTALLY murdering several...(and they ain't even mad at him, LOLOL!!!) Wow....but at least Ron's acting was good. The rest are just THERE....3) The "monster" was SO CORNY-LOOKING, it wasn't even FUNNY. Seriously, it looked like a Mothra/Alien/Predator combination...WITH CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS attached...Bwahahahahaha!!!!Kainan had nothing to offer these straw hut dwellers AT ALL from his so-called advanced technology, oh wait, he did have something to "offer" to that princess....IF you know what I mean??? Bottom line: Overall, this piece-of-crap movie is a pathetic wanna-be parody/combination of all the following: a) Beowulf b) Alien c) Predator d) StargateLike other reviewers have stated: Why? Why was this even made? The whole premise of the storyline is utter BS. At the beginning, Caviezel's character Kainan doesn't even know what to do with a horse, then , VIOLA, he's up and ridin off into the sunset...w/hands tied....Ughhhh....and can he PLEASE STOP trying to act/talk like Clint Eastwood? He IS NOT Clint, and he really sounds ridiculous...This dull, predictable movie is an absolute BOMB, the acting is so sub-par, that not even greats like John Hurd/Ron Perlman could save it. The only reason it got any good reviews here on IMDB is because of all the "Christians" that always 10-rate any piece of garbage starring ole rabid bible thumping Jim. It sucks/he sucks, and we fast-forwarded through most of it, so do yourself a favor and HARD PASS.

lordredblue 1. Underwater dwelling creature can drown easily 2. Monsters save hot babes for dessert 3. The width of your tool matters more than its length

armin-durakovic Well, I don't know if it can be called a "sci-fi" movie. You have at most 5 minutes of science fiction in the almost two hours that I lost by watching this movie. Also, it is not that exact historic if I put it that way. I'm not sure if these filmmakers know how real vikings looked like ? To recap, real vikings lived in Scandinavia, in subarctic climate (where it's damn cold). This movie shows us vikings in an unrealistic environment with volcanoes and lava, in an almost Mediterranean environment. The vikings walk with short sleeves, look like Americans, behave like Americans and have almost nothing in common with vikings, except few viking shields and a viking village. Come on, the filmmakers could do better than that. At least some effort would make the movie much more realistic. And I haven't seen one viking that is naturally blond or at least to look like one. Most of them have brown or black hair with some hair parts that are colored to blond. I mean everybody knows that the Scandinavian people are blond with pale skin (due to low levels of Melanin because they are not exposed to sun). It's because they live in winter lands :) Except these simple geographic and scientific facts that have nothing to do with this (not science, but more of a fiction) movie, it also lack creativity. It's full of plot holes. The story is undeveloped, so at least to say, and it has no twist at all. Action scenes have not much creativity in it and the whole idea of the movie ends where it has started: at the beginning. I won't recommend it to anyone.

SnoopyStyle Kainan (Jim Caviezel) is an alien who crash lands on Earth bringing with him an animal called Moorwen of immense power. He must convince the local Vikings led by King Hrothgar (John Hurt) to join him to battle the creature. Love interest is played by Sophia Myles.There is some good action, and a good premise for sci-fi historical drama. It starts off relatively well. There is good action and good drama. The monster is revealed a little too early. They could have saved it for some place more powerful.Then there is the middle where the tension is almost all drained away. Kainan knows the creature is still out there, but he barely protests as the Vikings parties. It makes little sense. And Jim Caviezel isn't able to maintain any suspense there. It reveals one thing during the feast, but it's hardly worth the time wasted. I rather have more hunting action.The final hunt is a little muddled and too extended. After the big battle, it feels too repetitive. It seems anti-climatic to have the best action happen so much earlier. And the final blow isn't quite so great. I would have expected something more head chopping.