This must be Michael Crichtons worst...

Rating: 4/10 (13 September 2000)

A very unrealistic movie indeed.
Maybe it is my Norwegian background, but I get irate when I experience the Vikings portrayed as savages like this. The Vikings had very high cultural values, in fact. They were not a mixture of new-Guinean cannibals and Wall Street brokers.
Furthermore, the historic realism could have been done much, much better. Vikings learned early to make soap, from the Celts whom they both traded with and raided. Unfortunately soap-cooking disappeared with the replacing of Celtic Christianity in Norway by Catholicism.
The special effects however makes the film look more accurate than it in reality is. But the truth is that even Kirk Douglas' "the Vikings" is better.