An awesome if often unappreciated adventure

Rating: 9/10 (4 December 2002)

An epic-scale adventure which keeps getting better with every viewing. Despite alleged troubles in production the magnificent cast delivers an impressive effort and it's a shame no prequel is coming, featuring just the Northmen. I read the book and it does help here and there but the movie is strong enough without that experience. It doesn't quite top Kirk, Ernest, and Tony but that one's not out (yet) on DVD, so there.
(Minor spoiler - in the "first encounter" scene at the cottage in the forest, is it just me hearing things or did a Predator somehow creep into those trees?)