Historically inaccurate with characters you don't care for and a story you've seen beat-for-beat before. But somebody give this damn costume department an Academy Award immediately!

Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.

Great-looking action/adventure flick is dramatically weak and banal

Vikings come to North America hundreds of years before Columbus bringing death & destruction to the Beothuk people in what is now Newfoundland. One of the latter, Ghost (Karl Urban), is actually a Viking by blood, a survivo...

A historian should not watch this film without a medical team nearby.

My problem with films set in the past, or about historical facts, is that my academic background in History prevents me from lightly accepting everything that the filmmakers want to make me swallow. That's why I was so hars...