GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
CrawlerChunky
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
imbluzclooby
The historical position that Viking Norsemen had contact with Inuits or Algonquins from the fringes of Northeast America is debatable if not highly improbable. But according to some Viking sagas there are unreliable literary claims that this happened. Based on the AI production of The Norseman this takes the historical claim to wildly preposterous levels. I did a little research after I saw this dreadful film and discovered that all they had correct were a couple of historical names and the god they worshiped (Onid) accurate.As for the movie itself we see poorly choreographed battles sketches with clumsy jump cuts, edits and inappropriate usage of slow motion. Now I read some of the other reviews and some are quite scathing and hilarious. Teeing off on a bad movie can be fun some of you did a good job of promoting mockery and satire. Oh, but only if this movie was a satire it would be forgivable. But it's not, unfortunately. The Norseman is a 1970's B-Movie that looks more like a 1950's B- Movie with all of its cut rate production values, bad costumes, wooden acting, grandiose score and redundant tone. The problem here is that it's even worse than your average 1950's period movie.Listening to Vikings talk with southern accents while uttering archaic dialogue is obviously just a case of bad acting and the inability to capture the proper mood for a period film. As such, the result here is just bizarre. Lee Majors plays the lead commander (Thorvald) and can't seem to shed his normal persona of a Good Old boy. Now I'll try to be kind about Lee. I have nothing against the guy personally and I don't think he is a bottom rate actor, but he looks so out of place in this type of role. And i couldn't quite figure out his outfit which looked like a hodgepodge of historical costume anachronisms. His helmet and facial guard looked like a cheaply designed helm of a Roman legionnaire. His face mask looked more like a Lone ranger eye mask. The rest of his outfit looked like a poorly tailored S&M fetish outfit.And don't forget that ex-NFL Lineman, Deacon Jones, has a non- speaking role as the Black Viking who was enslaved by the Norsemen during a raid on the African Coast. Alright, I understand that the vikings did at one time venture by the coast of Africa, followed by the Roman victory over the Vikings and Visigoths, but the likelihood is highly improbable. I guess it was part of the 1970's social equanimity conscious that influenced this film to incorporate a Black actor.The rest of the cast doesn't bode too well either. The Native Indians are shown as screeching savages. The Viking hoard are adorned with their goofy furs, Horned helmets ( I heard this was inaccurate) and swords. Susie Coehlle offers some eye candy as a young Native woman who befriends the Norsemen to help them find their captive family members. After reading the reviews i was hoping to discover that if the movie is so universally perceived as crappy then it must be worth laughing at. But it wasn't for me. It was just boring and nauseating to the point that I wanted everyone, especially the Norsemen players, to be slain by the Indians.
Matthew_Capitano
It stinks.Lee 'The Six Million Dollar Man' Majors. If he isn't one of the Top Ten WORST excuses for an actor in cinematic history, then somebody needs to be taken off that list so we can put Majors on it.The bionic dud shows up with a crooked mustache and a late 1970's hairstyle. He utters lines of 'period' dialogue with all the urgency of a constipated snail. Helping him stink is Cornel Wilde(!) -- what the freak is he doing in this creaky tripe? Majors employed a small band of his buddies including Denny Miller (the guy who played 'Tongo' the ape man on Gilligan's Island about a thousand years ago). The only real question here is: How did Majors arrive at the conclusion that doing this film would be a 'good idea'? Everything in this movie stinks, especially Majors, whom no doubt forgot to drink a cup of coffee each morning before filming so we could tell he was awake.
dworldeater
Watchable, but mostly unspectacular Vikings vs. Indians picture. Even though this came out in the late 1970's, it looks like it could have been made 15 to 20 years previous. Lee Majors helms the longship to The New World in search of his father who did not return from a previous expedition and captured by hostile indians. Much like a western from the 50's the native tribes are portrayed in a very one dimensional manner and like the 50's, not a single Native American is cast in this either. The acting is adequite, but far from exceptional. The action is nothing special either. The one element I did find interesting is character actor Jack Elam as the Viking wizard. I'm sure this production was fairly cheap and is decent for not costing much to make. However watchable, The Norseman is a pretty boring period action film and very little about the film stands out as exciting or memorable.
aisteru35
If not, it should be. The 6 million dollar Viking! Where are those robots when you need them? SPOILER warning - There may be spoilers, there may not. I'm not sure, but the warning scared me so I figured I'd stray on the side of safety.What to say? The acting is terrible, the costuming worse. The Vikings are rather un-fearsome, particularly as they have armor and swords and shields (all painfully obviously plastic) while their foes have bows and, well, pointy sticks. Lee Majors, for some bizarre reason, wears a Zorro-esquire mask under his snail-shell helmet, pronounces Norse as "Norz" and seems to be outfitted more like a Roman legionary. The Vikings throw battle-axes and are wearing sweatpants. Swords appear out of nowhere. You get the picture.Some one mentioned the plausibility of a conflict between Vikings and Native Americans. Even mentioned Vinland. Sure, except the North American presence of Vikings was in Labrador and Newfoundland. Not Florida. This was filmed in Tampa. There are palm trees everywhere.Really, really ridiculous, but I can't give it a 1 because there is just so much to crack on in this movie.
