This movie was simply awful!

Rating: 2/10 (31 July 2005)

I am warning you all that my comments may contain "spoilers"? But how can you spoil what is already garbage? How this movie is rated over a 5 is beyond me.
The producers of this movie seem to have gotten so caught up in producing authentic looking dark age sets, that they forgot other important aspects such as dialog, characterization and PLOT! Before you even think of going out and renting this flick, let me spare you the experience and give you the entire hehe 'plot' in a nut-shell.
Arab guy is banished to Norway because the Kings wife loves him. Some little boy asks a group of Vikings for help because his village is being over-run. All of a sudden hundreds people in bear costumes show up, and 12 Vikings beat them off, then they come back, then the vikings beat them off, then they come back, then the vikings beat them off.
Then they get a bright idea! If we go to their lair and kill their mom, they will go away. So we have to suffer through an agonizing underground sequence which climaxes where the hero can barely defeat an old women holding a 2 inch bone. PSYCHE! It didn't work, and guess what, the Bears attack and the Vikings beat them off(this time with only 5 people). The End. Antonio Bandaras banishment is apparently over and he goes back to his homeland.
And what really makes this movie so special is that we actually CARE about the characters.