Great movie, but...

Rating: Null/10 (23 October 1999)

This is one of the better movies done in the 1990'th. The story-line is interesting nd the milieus are breath-taking. Banderas acts as one might expect, and the rest of the cast was also perfect - extra fun to see Sven Wolter in an American movie.
But like every good movie there is always something to complain about.
1) Some of the computer-background were to obvious to spot - like the Arabic city and the boat on the storming sea, but I understand that it's not an easy work.
2) The language the Vikings spoke. Was it Swedish? Icelandish? or perhaps celtish? The language changed many times and therefor it was hard to know what country they was in.
An extra + for the fact that the movie has some accurate historical event. Ibn Falhad was an Arabic adventurer who claimed that he had traveled as far north as Thule (Norway), in fact - historian of today think that he only went to France and there met some Northmen whom he talked to.