Kari Wührer stars as a witch, who turns the king's son Barek into an immortal berserker. The enmity between Barek and the witch extends to the present day in his attempts to become mortal again and break Odin's curse.
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This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
This entire film made no sense whatsoever. The plot? What plot? It was all an array of confusing words and scenes. What me and my partner remember about the film:There was a viking battle then they were in a mental ward, then the bear men attacked a night club for some reason and thats pretty much when we got lost. Some immediate questions arose from the whole film, including: why were they in a night club? why were the guys in the 21st century still wearing bear hats? why were all the women in the film vampires for no reason? why bear hats when the king was called boar? who was the old man! why was there a 20 minute journey to have a small conversation why was he in a cell and also chained up to the ceiling?Good film to laugh at when you're stoned though.I tried to watch it to the end, really I did. The hilarity was just too much though.
I had no background knowledge of this movie before I bought it, but it sounded cool and I've been wanting to see a really kick-butt Viking movie for awhile now... alas, this film was not what I was looking for. I had hoped for the best, but instead, was delivered a boring Nordic soap-opera that seemed to drag on too long despite its 84 minute running time. The film's premise is intriguing enough: It's about a Viking warlord who defies his God and Odin is so enraged that he curses the warlord's son, named Barek, to death and rebirth as a Berserker. This Barek guy is then forced to live enraged, insane, and violent lifetime after lifetime. The movie is filmed competently enough, with some rich cinematography and quasi-good performances by the actors, but again, I found myself bored and questioning when this dribble would end. The filmmakers had a chance to make something rather entertaining and semi-unique but they dropped the ball. Perhaps it could've been improved with some cheap exploitation tactics thrown in such as gratuitous nudity and lots of gore... I mean, we are talking about "Berserkers" here, aren't we? Vikings were supposed to be BAD enough, what with all the raping and pillaging, so aren't Berserkers supposed to be even more extreme? All in all, unless you're a fan of The Young and Restless (etc...) or, are yourself, in fact, an insane Berserker who likes self torture, I'd probably steer clear of this drab piece of celluloid.
I was an extra in the opening scene where the combined forces storm Eric the Red's encampment. Never knew where to see the final product. Then stumbled upon it on Cinemax one night. Needless to say that I can't be seen, anywhere (I was just filler in a war scene, anyway).Didn't expect too much going into the film, but things look better when they are on the screen than they look in real-life. The story wasn't as basic as it had sounded and their were some nice twists in the ending. I'm glad to see it wasn't a "straight forward Hollywood finish". Rest assured that Paul Johanssen is a total tool (cheesy sense of humor).Impressed with the final thing, but only cause it exceeded my low expectation.
What a great film!I was very impressed with the special effects and the storyline was excellent!This is a very well directed movie and I thoroughly enjoyed it!