XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

HeadlinesExotic Boring

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

bendandblow Look, all anyone needs to know, is that this film Rocks, plain and simple. If you really wanna know what it must have been like to be a Viking surviving the perils of a young America- See this Movie. The three act formula that is so present in most all Hollywood films, has been abandon in "Severed Ways." If your strictly a fan of Buff Nordic men, raping, pillaging, giving loud speeches packed with bravado and axe on axe battles- see "Pathfinder"OR better yet, get hopped up on some over the counter medication, mix the Tobasco in with your Vaseline and watch the "13th Warrior". Free your minds and your ice-holes will follow- Into the woods...

outfitboy It is nearly impossible to achieve the epic natural scope and primordial realism of Severed Ways without a massive budget, limitless location potential, heavy machinery (as in 'copters and cranes), and unimaginable set builds. What has been achieved here by a small team of independent filmmakers is truly above and beyond in both cinematic beauty and raw yet researched realism. This film immediately transports you into it's fantastical yet wholly natural world via the empathy one feels for the very real plight of the 2 highly believable Viking characters lost in the new world. In a second achievement of the seemingly impossible Tony Stone manages to fuse together the much hinted at and referenced viking/metal association in popular culture in a majestic and seamless way. This incredible and fitting soundtrack supports the rough epic grandeur of two characters from a lost culture struggling to survive while lost in a new world. Random encounters with forest dwelling Jesuit monks and First Nation warriors add depth to the Vikings search for understanding in their fight to survive. From the epic triumphs of enduring spirit to the sometimes comical/playful details of the human experience this movie sails the metal churned seas with grace and depth.

Pierre I saw Severed Ways in theater a couple of weeks ago and haven't been able to get it out of my mind since. Of course it has it's flaws but keep in mind this was the director's (Stone) first feature and an extremely ambitious one at that.I'm so sick of seeing the same old independent garbage. Boy loves girl. Girl doesn't love boy but she loves Belle and Sebastion. Somebody makes a phone call on the hamburger phone to someone else who is a dying and pregnant and its official everyone loves Zooey Deschanel. Severed Ways is a Viking period piece made by a crew of about 8 people. How's that even possible. The soundtrack has Norwegian Black Metal and Judas Priest. Amazing! I thought the use of low def digital video wouldn't work for a period piece but the way it allowed the film to be shot with little to no lighting made it feel more authentic. The cinematography was beautiful even though sometimes the high shutter speed made it a little hard on the eyes. All in all Severed Ways is a step in the right direction for independent cinema. It's something new and different and I appreciate that. I know people will have trouble with pacing of the film but it's obvious that its deliberate and an attempt to show how two men would try to live off of a land they are not accustomed to. Sometimes the film took a comedic turn which took me out of the film a bit but it would eventually pull me back in. I'm excited to see what's next for these extremely independent young filmmakers.

berencamlost I just saw this movie... It appears to be dubbed (to Swedish) and the subtitles did not match anything they said. Also, the acting isn't that good - and the story progresses rather slowly. The highlight of the entire movie was watching one of the vikings defecate. If you can call that a highlight...Steer clear of this film. It's nothing more than a waste of your time. No historic facts what so ever..I didn't hear any Greenlandic or old Norse, only Swedish. Don't know if the version I saw was deliberately destroyed by evil saboteurs, or if it was intended to be this flawed.The movie also contained a lot of Norwegian Black Metal (Dimmu Borgir, Burzum, etc.) - that in itself is cool, but combined with headbanging vikings it's just annoying.