Could have been better

Rating: Null/10 (21 February 2000)

I will put my two cents in...possible spoilers:
This movie had way too many side-trips that were never explained or came to anything. For example:
1) When the Viking first met the prince, one of the Vikings said something like "At least I don't kill my own brother"...then the prince almost attacks him. What the heck was that all about? What was he talking about?
2) Later, as they are preparing for the oncoming attack they decide to pick a fight with some huge red-headed guy "to make an example"... What the hell!? So they need everyman they can get and they pointlessly kill a HUGH guy that would have been a great asset to their defense. Why!?
3) The whole "love scene" between the Arab and the Norse woman. What was the point? You see them wake up together one time and then that's it, except she touched his leg as he rode off to find the cave. Why bother?
YAWN...this could have been a really creepy movie, but we find out that the bear people are just people really early in the film, the whole "eating the dead" thing was never expanded on, so it became kind of like mix between Quest for Fire and Excalibur.