Viking (2016)
The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...
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An Exercise In Nonsense
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
The acting in this movie is really good.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
This movie has nothing to do with history and actually art of movie. The story told in the movie has nothing to do to Russia. The actual story is about Kyivan Rus' that existed long before Russia appeared. Briefly: Volodymyr looks like stupid monkey with AK-47. Story is illogical, torn and lifeless. Lots of stupid, unhistorical events like boats sliding from the hill. Another crap movie wasted over 200mln dollars of taxes. Despite the budget decorations are poor, 2nd plan actors lazy and pretending. God, this movie so bad that even Uve Boll would film it better.
A beautiful movie about Vladimir I of Kiev and a fine chance to get more familiar with Eastern Europe's Medieval History.Shot with artistic talent and historical accuracy, the movie shows the clash between Scandinavian, Rus, Greek-Roman and Turkic populations at the dawn of the second Millennium.And Russian historians are among the finest on this period (those who have an interest in Byzantine History know very well who Georg Alexandrovič Ostrogorsky was) so I would not agree with those who complained on this matter. Calling the movie 'Viking' shows a sophisticated knowledge of Saint Vladimir's life. But it might be deceiving for greater audiences.
Really? Spend a 1 500 000 000 RUB & 7 years to film that bullshit? What a joke, and not a piece of true with a historic moments! Seems director and writer never read a book about that time! Prince Vladimir of Novgorod seems to be an idiot with no power in hand, it is not possible to become a powerful person with such of behaviar as he!So do not recommend to watch it, at all!
As a person who loves Nordic legends, the movie title interested me and with high expectations i decided to watch. After first 30 minutes i was completely disappointed, since the movie was not about vikings and Nordic culture. It turns about to be about Kievan Rus, and only Nordic related story was the group of vikings invited to fight for the movie Hero (Vladimir). However it is not a reason to name the movie as "Viking". The second disappointment was the movie story which was unclear and uncertain. There happened a lot of actions without a certain purpose. Now after 2-hour movie watching i can not say what particularly was this movie about, whether it was about fight between brothers or it was about Christianity. In addition to these there were several elements which were not related to either Russian or Nordic culture such as boats with Greek elements, roman legionary clothes of warriors, and of course the fact of metallic water pipeline, which was invented in Russia after 12th century. As a conclusion i would suggest movie creators to conduct a research before misrepresenting the story.