Shibby, awesome, excellent, epic, adventure Viking flick.

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2016)

Hollywood shud make more movies like this. Its a good solid action adventure from start to finish. Virtually stunning and set designs that transport the viewers back in time for 100 mins. This movie was extremely well done... Great cinematography, excellent casting, well written script, plenty of action, fantastic battle scenes and one helluva plot. It is a wonderful, erie, scary, and exciting Viking flick. Fans of CONAN THE BABARIAN/DESTROYER, shud definitely own a DVD or blu ray of this epic adventure flick. Very underrated film. A good adventure made better being based on the actual diary of the main character. Sadly the movie was not promoted enough. I remember seeing this when it first released in the theatre in 1999. Without watching any trailer or reading anything or any expectations, I entered the theatre for a late nite show. By GOD, was totally surprised n happy to catch it on big screen. The battle scenes are generally fantastic and exciting to watch and come at a pretty fast pace all the way through the movie. The final confrontation was kinda scary.
Directed by McTiernan (Die hard 1 n 3, Predator). Excellent music by Jerry Goldsmith. Awesome cinematography by Peter Menzies Jr. (A time to kill, Clash of titans@2010, Killing season). Star cast- Vladimir Kulich (Equalizer, Iron clad, Smokin aces). as Buliwyf. Antonio Banderas as Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan. Omar Sharif as Melchisidek n other less known actors who did decent job. Jus a lil reminder. This epic flick was before Gladiator,Lord of the rings,Troy,Kingdom of heaven,King Arthur,the New clash of the titans n the New Conan.