This could have been awesome but it's still very good

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 1999)

At first I was not going to see this movie because the trailer and the names did not impress me too much. I know Michael Crichton is good and so is Johm McTiernan but somehow I did not think this movie would be worthwhile.
Then suddenly one of my best friends who has an extremely good taste in movies told me that I really should go and see it. So I did - and to my amazement it was good. Somehow it reminded me of the british TV series "Robin of Sherwood" (1984) - same kind of scenery, men that are really men, heroic action sequences etc.
Somehow this movie also reminded me of my childhood which included playing knights and also vikings. If this movie would have come out when I was just a kid I think it would have han an anourmous impact on me.
Of course the movie has its faults : some continiuty gaps and frequently bad editing... This might be due to the problems they had during the production of this film. It feels like some sequences are left out. I guess that due to too much cutting the movie lacks philosophy and is too action orientated. But still it's different enough from today's movies where model-looking good guys are chasing model looking bad guys.
I hope that someday John McTiernan makes a director's cut out of this movie. At least I would be the first man to buy a copy!