This movie ranks, and I mean RANKS, at the bottom

Rating: 1/10 (1 December 2012)

How could a film which supposedly cost $100 million and has a similar theme to Game of Thrones, be so totally boring and just awful to sit through. Even my cat was pawing at the door to be let out. If Ed Wood had been listed as producer/director/writer I would have known what to expect. To begin with, the special effects seemed more like a low budget TV movie, and the film looked as if it had been shot with a home video camera or 16 mm film. Where did the money go?
Antonio Banderas cannot act, he just stands around while we get shots of his big brown eyes, but at least they did not try to pass him off as a Viking Warrior, for which I will give the film a rating of 1. Even Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis did a better job as Vikings, although they were Jewish.
THIS-TV showed a low budget film this week called Royal Deceit, (Prince of Jutland) a telling of the Viking saga on which Shakespeare's Hamlet was based, and which showed how absorbing a budget film could be.
The footage should be given to film students to practice with and see if someone can come up with an understandable, interesting, and more enjoyable film.