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Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany · 2014
Rated R · 1h 37m
Director Claudio Fäh
Starring Ryan Kwanten, James Norton, Ed Skrein, Tom Hopper
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
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This historical action-adventure film follows a viking group who find themselves shipwrecked in Scotland. Taking the king's daughter hostage and receiving aid from a generous monk, the vikings must fight for their lives against ruthless mercenaries and the tyrannical king in order to reach safety.
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
The battles, occurring every fifteen minutes or so, are brisk and bloody, but in them Northmen leaps too quickly from image to image, sometimes not giving us time to make sense of the mayhem. But the chases, and the Jacksonian sense of an epic journey across a time-lost landscape, will please devotees of the genre, and the flourishes are grand.
The cast is earnestly committed, and if there are a few too many hokey last-second rescues from certain doom, Northmen nevertheless rarely risks curdling into camp.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Lavishly staged and beautifully photographed, Northmen—A Viking Saga features enough energetic sword clanging to satisfy its target audience.
Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai
Northmen: A Viking Saga uses a relatively smaller scale to its advantage.
The fights are Old Hollywood meets New Bloodbath — corny and carnage-filled. The whole saga seems pre-ordained, pre-packaged and pretty boring, entirely too predictable to come off.
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