Critic Reviews

It’s hardly high art, but for a cheapjack homegrown action flick this is surprisingly solid.

Bewley is persuasive as the boy who would be king, while Michael Jibson stands out among the support as a foulmouthed berserker, along with Cosmo, who brings a touch of class without ever having to get up from his bed.

A bloody-knuckled fightfest, back-dropped by the beautiful Welsh countryside, this defies its budget to bring a little epic to Viking Britain.

Gamely directed and acted, but a little threadbare in terms of plot and design, it’s suitably savage but not quite fun enough to forgive the flaws.

An unbearably stupid exercise in gore that deserves to die the same cruel, soulless death that nearly every character does at some point in the film.