The Day The Earth Stood Still meets 13th Warrior meets Alien!by Anonymous

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May 29, 2009: I definitely feel this movie, that came to me so un-announced and provided such a nicely un-expected evening of escape, requires a decent review. But I am not going to try and justify my opinion by waxing away point-by-point trying to exhibit my "incredible" knowledge of the material which I am not an expert off, nor do I want to spoil the plot in this process. Instead I am just going to say that I am an average 49-year old guy, of norwegion decent, who also likes his sci-fi and is always in need of a worthy "Viking" flick that Hollywood hasn't dumped all over in their infinite wisdom & greed with another artistic historical mis-representation. Good example of this type of travesty = "Pathfinder". In other words if you see a helmet on a "Viking" head with horns run, because that is the biggest hollywood misnomer used. So having said all that, I felt this movie had a very interesting idea of blending aliens and monsters with 8th century Northmen, it has several recognizeable actors, a solid script, good depth of character, an interesting adversary well designed and CGI'd, and if you find at the end that you liked it too, defintely watch the deleted scenes, many of which substantially add to the overall plot, and I suspect were only left out because the genius studio money people castrated the director to edit it down time-wise. I applaud the creators of this for presenting an enjoyable change of pace combining some hard to blend genre's!

This review was written about the DVD Wide Screen edition.

I Also Recommend: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Alien, The Thirteenth Warrior.