Ray Winstone?

Rating: 6/10 (19 January 2008)

240 other people have already extensively commented on this fine movie.
However my only question is why on earth did they cast a cockney in he lead role? There's something that just doesn't quite fit with the character, the Vikings and the knowledge that he's actually quite fat in real life.
The actual CGI Beowulf looked far more like Sean Bean who surely would have made a better lead?
OK movie apart from that. The other characters, though displaying some dodgy Danish accents, appear quite at home in the movie and the plot and action sequences move along very nicely.
I was only put off by the completely out of place Cockney Winstone, chirping in here and there - worst when he was trying to be eloquent.