Cast
Mads Mikkelsen
One-Eye
Gary Lewis
Kare
Jamie Sives
Gorm
Ewan Stewart
Eirik
Alexander Morton
Barde
Callum Mitchell
Pagan Viking Guard
Andrew Flanagan
Duggal
Douglas Russell
Olaf
Maarten Stevenson
Are / The Boy
Gordon Brown
Hagen
Gary McCormack
Hauk
Robert Harrison
Roger
Mathew Zajac
Malkolm
Stewart Porter
Kenneth
James Ramsey
Gudmund
Rony Bridges
Magnus
P.B. McBeath
Man with Pike
Details
Status
Released
Original language
en
Countries
DK, GB
Budget
$5,650,000
Revenue
$31,000
Reviews
It never manages to rise above its one trick.
Nicolas Winding Refn directs and Mads Mikkelsen stars in this ponderous exercise in arty veneers. Refn boldly strips back the dialogue and plot to reveal a picture big on ideas but poor in execution. As the story plods along, stopping only briefly for some guttural violence now and then, it becomes evident that the makers have made a painfully boring movie. At first the drained out colour photography looks like a masterstroke of ethereal at...
Twilight of the grim, grey… um…
RELEASED IN 2009 and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, "Valhalla Rising” takes place in the 11th century where a one-eyed mute thrall (Mads Mikkelsen) obtains his freedom in the Scottish Highlands and joins a band of Viking Christians on a voyage to the Holy Land to fight in the Crusades, but the expedition doesn’t go as planned.
The movie definitely LOOKS and SOUNDS awesome with an ambient score reminiscent of Agalloch, but without the hea...
Rubbish! A true waste of 90 minutes... and of Mads Mikkelsen!
It evidently attempts similar as to what we would later see in 2022 with (the excellent) 'The Northman', though simply falls flat in every department for me. The whole production just looks so cheap and low-budget (which it wasn't), without even noting the (admittedly intended) pure misery of the look of it all too. Editing, notably w...
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