The Vikings were very courageous.

Rating: 8/10 (6 November 2002)

John McTiernan has the reputation of making action-movies, remember "Predator (1987)" and "Hunt for Red October, The (1990)". One can hardly say, apart from the intermission of the poet Ibn Fahdlan (a stupid Antonio Banderas in one of his worst parts ever), that this movie is not historically correct. Neanderthalers on horses, it is just possible. Cannibals in the Nordic Fjords adoring bears, it is also possible. One doubts if the Arab poet Ibn Fahdlan is still politically correct nowadays (the movie was made in 1999). The Nordic fighters (for the greatest part Norwegian actors), who in this movie are really afraid of nothing, are indeed (politically correct).