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AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Brad Noneya I just don't get why this gets bad reviews. I think people forget they're watching a fictional movie and not a documentary.This movie was totally awesome. Great characters, fight scenes, and music/sound. Starts, carries, and ends with mega action. Fight scenes look "killer." Nothing better than Viking sword and hammer fights. Not sure if my questions are spoilers but ... 1. Is Vali a traitor? I'm pretty sure he is but it's never actually confirmed. Can anyone prove either way?2. Why is it called Hammer of the Gods? No mention or appearance of a hammer.

D H Relaxing in front of the TV with nothing to do I came across this little movie that someone appears to have vomited into existence. The cinematography is actually pretty good, the score is OK in parts but a bit OTT in others, costumes are passable, even the script is OK. It all falls apart on the story and the acting.1. Actors - Yep, a collection of guys from the pub with the barmaid thrown in all happy to give making a movie a punt.The lead with his 2012 haircut consisting of perfectly clipper-ed sides, squared sideburns, layered top cut and hair gel - completely consistent with an 800AD Viking prince. He just cannot carry this part. Does not have the screen presence to make it seem credible. It looks acted. It looks like he's copying the clichés. You just don't get a feeling that he is this guy at all, he's just playing him the way other z movie actors have done.Grim - Yes that is the name of this character. You might perhaps have seen a comparable performance on the football terraces at Milwall. Short stumpy guy with an axe, screaming and hacking at people, charging into fights like a yob, just gives no sense of the reality of 800AD warfare. No character development, just one of the pub crowd playing a Viking as a football thug. I was glad when this character died.As for the rest, Hagan was pretty good (infact he seemed the most credible of all the cast), the rest very forgettable.2. The story - well, lets just say its a bit silly. There isn't much of a story. Prince goes looking for his brother as king lays dying. Cue chance to see the pub acting team go wandering across what looks like Wales having a Viking slaughter fest every few minutes.Right from the get go it is cliché. Vikings coming out of the mist. They meet a band of Saxons and kill all of them without losing any of their own. Cue shots of the main characters chopping down, one, then two, then three of the throw away Saxon non entities. Cool, we've established that these Viking guys from the pub can sort of swing a sword and that they are fighting the local blind, drunk, deaf crowd from the nearby hospice that only attack one by one.With the hospice Saxons now dead, the pub Vikings can growl and make silly smiles then head off to find the wounded king.Gosh, I can't say much more but this movie other than for the cast to put this on your CV/resume probably has the same career potential of a skid mark down the page.

staleofte So it may not be historically accurate in any manner (who casted the black guy anyway?), but I was entertained. The scenery was great, the acting good enough, the violence and humor was rough like I imagine it was back in the viking era. Unlike "Valhalla Rising" this had a decent ending. I liked that Hakan looked like a well known actor from the old days (you'll probably know when you see him), it gave the film another dimension to me.Another reviewer says "the ridiculous tents they used were hilarious to say the least". Well Google "viking tent" and you'll see that they we're pretty much like that. I've also seen tents like that in viking camps in Norway.

Rickardo Crainium I have know idea why there are so many negative reviews of this movie. I found it to be very entertaining. I was not looking for a history lesson, and things did not need to be historically accurate. The movie was suspenseful and had a horror flick feel to it. If you want historically correct films of vikings then watch public broadcasting or go to the library. Anyone who gives this movie a bad rating because it is not "Correct," should have not been able to submit a review, because of their anal-retentiveness! If you read my, and others reviews, who have given this movie a good rating then watch it for its entertainment value and not to nit-pick it for perfect historically correctness!