it's got to be the Viking thing...

Rating: 8/10 (4 September 2001)

It's got to be the Viking thing... Anyway, I picked up this movie knowing very little about it, so I had no expectations. What I got was a very interesting action packed film. The story smacks of Beowulf and his killing of Grendel. These warriors have basically been sent for to protect a village from slaughter by some unknown foe that only appears in the mist and in turn kill it (them).
Even though I'm not a very big fan of Banderas (and maybe because he wasn't the center of the story), he brought a touch of comic relief that worked well with Herger the Joyous. These 2 characters are the most memorable and the ones who we get to know the most. A few things were off on the DVD: In the subtitles Omar Sharif and Herger the Joyous do not speak Greek, they speak Latin.
All in all rent this movie, it wouldn't win an Oscar, but you just might find yourself watching it more than once.