That was an excellent one.

Am I Missing Something?

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I haven't watched Hammer of the Gods, so Sword of Vengeance was a completely fresh and new impression for me. Frankly speaking, I expected (and feared) to see something alike Valhalla Rising, but fortunately I was wrong in my expectations.Here we have not an art house movie, full of hidden meanings and symbols, but quite frank and straightforward story about vengeance (as you may guess from the title). Plot retains logic almost till the end, slightly (or completely, depends on the point of view) losing grip on reality in the final part. Would it stood firm until the ending credits, for me it would be one of the best films I saw this year. The Sword of vengeance is built on visuals, and by visuals I mean not only effects (which are mostly practical by the way) but the whole filming and editing thing. It's stylish, well-sustained and strong in every scene. In fact the visuals in this movie are self-sufficient, especially in combination with the sound. Plot, and even actors' performance may be put aside, neglected – and the movie still would look great.In fact actors are not bad. I would say they did well enough, at least to stay on the level and not waste the good, almost perfect picture. The fighting scenes are good, but the lack of budget still can be seen through them, especially in large-scale battles. Director was careful enough not to exceed the scale beyond his limits, but these limits still were very tight. That's why from time to time we feel the lack of men in the shot and battles look sliced into separate pieces, which run separately from each other. In duels there are too many slow-motion that meant to hide simple, ascetic fighting choreography, and all the other scenes are tend to be static and mute.Despite all of above-mentioned as a whole picture is good and gives you a good emotional impact. I guess, it's because of director's and operator's talents. As I've said already, would the writer to as good as them – movie would be very, remarkably good. No one would expect a complicated intrigue for a plot, but remain logical is crucial in such cases.So the movie is good, but not as good as it could be – with just a slight script edition.

The Vikings TV series seems to be spinning off a sub genre of 1000 AD action shows. At least that is how I see this one. Cross Ragnar with the High Plains Drifter. Distilled Man with No Name with a Ragnar L. haircut. Wish they had explained how a Norman boy transformed into a Viking bad-ass. Love the berserkers by the way. I like the style, the weird electronic score. It is more like a dream world than realistic.The colors are black and white.The landscape science fiction. Not even true to history.There were no stone castles three years after 1066! No originality to the plot. Really it is the classic a stranger comes to town.But that's OK I was entertained. I like it for what it is.

this is not a movie. it is a collection of scenes a real movie would have, without any decent connection between them. sure it has flashy action, and even the very predictable "the hero gets to bang the blond chick", but there are no real characters. where in a movie scenes are tied together into a story, this "thing" has no story. just a collection of hack and slash, where somehow a handful of undisciplined Saxon farmers manage to beat a well trained army. also they pretend to be pagans, while england was already converted to the false Christian god 4 centuries before the battle of Hastings. also they were no Saxons, they were Anglo-Saxons. which basically is a Christian who has stolen pagan culture, amongst others.the only way this movie can be enjoyable, is if you are very drunk or stoned...

I watched this movie without expectations,and was pleasantly surprised. The action is good. The acting is good for being a direct to DVD movie. Even better than expected. What really bugs me these days is, no matter what type of action movie. They always gonna have the good guys spend valuable time in the heat of the battle, mourning the dead. Just so the bad guy can get an upper hand or pull some dirty trick. Someone really need to update the textbook on that one ,cause it get stupefying boring ,not to mention predictable to the point where you just fast forward to something more interesting. Or just turn of the movie all together The end fight was a great up until a certain point. *******spoilers**********spoilers*************spoilers********** What ruins the end fight was that.suddenly when one person fell,all of the others who at that time had been holding their own pretty good,suddenly fought like amateurs.And started falling like domino pieces.That was just too stupid. Up until than me and my friends were entertained.but when they did that,we just fast forwarded