A bad film from a good book

Rating: 2/10 (17 June 2008)

While the historical details in the basic story, of a Saudi being kidnapped by Vikings and eventually taking part on a raid on a tribe of cannibals living inland from the Swedish West Coast, is today seen as truer than ever, as human bones, crushed to get to the marrow, recently found in the area, dating approximately from the time the story dates from!
But the film is a bloody mess, in every way!
If you've read the book before you'll understand something of it, but the way it is told is pretty awful! Too much power to the producer, and writer, Michael Chrichton, I suspect!