This movie is a gem. Banderas did an amazing job, and played the role with his usual passion.

The book better explains what is going on. There are anthropologists who believe that Neanderthals lived in isolated places in far Northern Europe longer than initially believed. It's a "what if" they had lasted until the Viking age ,with Beowulf as a base, and on the real life interaction between Vikings and Arabs during the Dark Ages.

This is definitely one of my favorite movies. Classic movie for anyone who likes action movies. I have watched this movie at least 15 times and I still love it.

Great movie selection! Love this movie!

One of my favorite movies. I understand that they deleted over an hour of tape due to problems with the author of the book who was getting too involved in the production of the film. I can't imagine what it would have been like with all the content the director filmed, too bad that could never be recovered. The soundtrack goes wonderfully with the essence of the story. 💪

This flick deserved a much better fate at the box office

TURN THE VIDEO VOLUME UP!!!

You might want to watch the movie ''Outlander'' (2008), starring Jim Caviezel, it's a sci-fi take on ''Beowulf''.

This is a reimagining of Beowulf, Crichton also reimagined 'King Solomon's Mines' as 'Congo'

Loved this movie. Wished Dennis Stohori aka Herger, the guy who takes a liking to Ibn got to do some more here in the States!

Better than 2017 Mummy 10/10

I think shaky cam in melee combat where its small groups can make that combat feel more jarring. I think it fits this scene well if we are following iben's pov since between the culture shock he is fighting in a far land against monsters of another people. He has got to be scared witless.

Just an FYI for the future, the movie volume is much lower than you guys.

This WAS a 2 hour movie. And then the execs panicked and trimmed the shit out out it. And did massive reshoots. And then trimmed it down once more. So the choppy plot with countless lose ends is the result of all that trimming. There is anywhere between 25 to 40 minutes of the movie just cut, depending on the source.

I love this movie pans labrinyth is also amazing!

soundtrack was the same composer as the mummy, if you don't know by now.

While the movie itself indeed has Beowulf inspiration running through its veins, the book itself was based on a diary(of sorts) of real historical figure - an Arab traveler, and events described in the original material take place somewhere around the bank of Volga river. There might have been vikings out there(or Voryags/Varangians, as they were called locally), but the main population was mostly Slavic with a mix of Bulgars and Finns.

I couldn't do the whole ''pretending to be asleep'' thing, if I'm pretending to be asleep, it ain't gonna be long and I will be asleep!

This is a great movie and I've seen it many times. I think my favorite part is how he learns their language gradually by listening to them talk. Also, the morning bowl of...water, with all the spitting and snagging, zizzing and driffing, turns my stomach every time. Lol Michael Crichton knew how to write them. *Disclosure* (1994) with Michael Douglas and Demi Moore is a departure from his usual fare and a great story. Edit: *Valhalla Rising* (2009) with Mads Mikkelsen, who plays a Norse warrior, is a great movie that takes place around the 12th century and follows a group of Crusaders who get lost in a strange land on their way to the Crusades.

Most fights are quick and not a long affairs so I loved this movie, saw it when it first came out :)

Very late but you need to see the (1940) Mark of Zorro with Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone. It's arguably one of the best of classic swashbuckling Hollywood.

It kinda reminds me of predator, which makes since both are John McTiernan movies. Also, I'll say that John McTiernan is probably the best action director.

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Most of the fights were at night so shooting bows at night is hard and when they could do shoot they did :)

Love this movie!

this would have been roughly 920-922 AD, when ibn Fadlan's embassy happened. this part is made up, but that would still be the time frame. i read the book (Eaters of the Dead) in high school. Michael Crichton wrote it as a way to tell Beowolf as it might have actually happened before being romanticized in its retelling. the fire worm is obviously the dragon, the chief is grendel and the matriarch is grendel's mother. ibn Fadlan is just a convenient vehicle to tell the story from a unique perspective.

This movie seems to be a kinda marmite movie; you either love it or hate it. I personally love it, and so do most people. But there are a lot of folks who seem to despise it for some unspecified reason. The movie is "kinda" historical fiction. Antonio Banderas' character really did exist, and he really was a diplomat and explorer who left Bagdad to explore Europe, and he really did meet Vikings (he wrote one of the only first hand accounts we have of a Viking funeral, and his work is referenced by historians all the time), but although he traveled with the Vikings for some time, he doesn't really talk much about the journey itself. So this movie is a kind of 'what if' of what might have happened during those missing months; a reimaginging of Beowulf, featuring a tribe of cannibals (implied, but not outright stated, to be neanderthals who survived into the 9th century - although in reality the neaderthals died out around 40'000 years ago) in the place of Grendel. I like that the Vikings have such mismatched equipment. They're wearing armour from all over Europe, from very different cultures (granted, some of it's a century or two early; Buliwyf's plate armour in particular is probably far too advanced for the period), which makes sense. They were traders and raiders, so they'd pick up mismatched gear from all over the place.

I wish we could have watched some of the movie too

6:47 The viking king shouts out. "Vi må sände araben" = We need to bring the Arab.

As a dane, i Can understand, What the norske Are saying. Its a blend of Danish, swedish and Old norse

(22:24) StalaCtites Come from the Ceiling and stalaGmites Grow from the Ground.

The coldest line in the whole film: Bulvai has just killed that dude in tent who was his rival. Very next sentence “Now that there was a new king, …” Straight up cold blooded

I love this movie, but the one thing that has always bothered me is Antonio's heavy spanish accent being played off for a middle eastern accent, like I know it's a product of the time it was made but they didnt even try to get around it lol it's a 7.5 /10 for me, but I can understand a flat 7

Imagine the fire and safety planning required for filming the epic nighttime battle ?

One of my favorite movies.

Being NORTHMEN, u got to laugh and have a sense of humor when its WINTER for 7 months every year. xdxdxd

Criminally underrated. The reviewers did this movie dirty. And yes, it was because of PC - not enough 'diversity'

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4:00 this was like 900 a.d. around today's ukraine and north of that (probably up to sweden bro) neither mongolians or tatars were there. it was cumans/kypchaks, oghuz and possibly khazars back then as altaic steppe peoples

Vladimir Kulch for the win. Also the voice of Jarl Ulfric Stormcloak , high king of Skyrim

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You remind me of the mummy :)

What's hilarious to me is that the old woman screams "valkyries, Norms" what on earth does she mean by norms? They probably just thought it sounded cool in Norwegian. And to answer your question if vikings were big, yes they were. It was even written by English monks that they were. Mostly because of harsh winters but plenty of meat and carbs. But they're horses weren't tho. They used the short icelandic horses similar to ponnies 😂 that probably made them look bigger as well.

Gotta love the water tray being passed around or "Skylleskål" Literally meaning "Rinse bowl" In danish. A very real, very healthy thing to do, despite the implications. But being subjected to the germs of the entire village WILL boost your immune syystem

isnt it funny (to the rest of the world) and that thrusts the protagonist, who is islam btw, but after 15 of cut up stuff, let say atleast an hour and 20 minutes, still distrusts... what in the

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Damn what an awful film! I watched this years ago and was bored to death with it and so will never watch again.