Viking Blood

Seems like a pretty amateur effort, but the actors take it seriously and I enjoyed it. Sort of a Viking era Western. Some of the other reviewers are right in that the editing is terrible. Has lots of other flaws but it has a certain charm that you only find in independent flicks.

It's 960 A.D., the waning years of the old Viking belief system. Christianity is slowly taking over, but there is still a large resistance to the new faith.

A stranger riding through the forest finds a woman bound and a hanging on a cross. He takes her down and brings her to a nearby village. He learns from an old trader that the lord in village, Earl Odisson, has expelled Gudrun and her Christian flock from the village and they are now at war.

The Stranger's natural instinct is to profit from this situation, but he soon learns that both sides are treacherous and makes a promise to the trader that neither shall prevail.

However, somewhere along the line he must put aside his greed and make a moral choice to become the man he is destined to be.

A thoroughly enjoyable film. Must be watched from beginning to end.

It is a good film, enjoyable to watch. However, the story is extremely close to the one of the Sergio Leone's film '' A fistful of dollars. "It must be remembered that Sergio Leone himself had drawn the story of his film from a previous work by Akira Kurosawa.

Fist full of Dollars was the original, this is a weak attempt to use that storyline and make a Viking version. Acting 7/10, Plot 2/10 unoriginal, Overall 5/10.

Well. I was thinking about this as I went to the loo...how really awful it is. But then I thought....really, the people probably DD live in ramshackle little villages. They probably DID fall out with the people who lived over the hill. They probably DIDNT have a whole lot to say to each other and when they did, I might have been just as lame. They probably DID look as dirty.

Then I realised the lead was playing the villages off against each other and it is a Viking remake of Clint Eastwood's famous spaghetti Western. Is it Tgbau, or is it "A Fistful of Dollars"?

That made it a slightly better film, as at least there was a semblance of a plot - to copy the plot of another movie. Because otherwise, it didn't make any sense at all. Really.

Usually there is pretty scenery or something to make up for it. There wasn't.