Valhalla Rising
One-Eye is a Viking chieftain. In this film, his courage can only compare him with supernatural power. Having escaped from slavery, he sailed with the Christian soldiers searching the Holy Land. But instead, he found himself lost in an unfamiliar and dangerous territory.
24 March 1945, Scotland, UK
1958, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
20 February 1978, London, England, UK
22 November 1965, Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark
16 April 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
8 October 1957, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
December 26, 2010
Filled with brutality.
July 29, 2010
If only the pieces added up to an experience that sticks and that didn't finally succumb to a shrug of entropy.
July 16, 2010
Mr. Refn, who can pull off stylish brutality (in the Pusher films and Bronson), shows no knack for the kind of visionary, hallucinatory image making that would render Valhalla Rising memorable.
December 22, 2010
A mad meditation on the primeval nature of man, faith and survival, this is Apocalypse Then, and then some.
January 02, 2016
Brutal, thoughtful, re-envisioning of Vikings. . .A bit ponderous and pompous, powerfully showcases Mikkelsen's non-verbal acting, striking imagery, evocative landscapes.
November 04, 2010
It's a chilly, often slow, uncompromisingly harsh film, but Refn's images will sear your retinas.
July 23, 2010
You sometimes wish Refn's gift for Ridley Scott-level mayhem had won the battle over his much iffier Werner Herzog leanings.
May 31, 2011
Mikkelsen verifies that, even without saying a word, he's an unnervingly unhinged presence.
December 01, 2010
Less Braveheart than Aguirre, The Wrath of God, this evocative Viking tone poem contemplates the convergence between violence and religion.
July 22, 2010
Like a John Milius film reduced to its pure, masculine essence and shot through one of Alejandro Jodorowsky's lens filters.
December 03, 2010
Directed in moody and portentous strokes by Nicolas Winding Refn, this is the most abstract Viking movie you'll ever see...
July 22, 2010
It's a trip into a primordial world and primeval sensibilities, and if you're looking to shake off the mall-movie blahs, there are few better places to look.
