Is a masterpiece for which you must be informed of what you are going to go see at the movies.
This is not an accessible fun time adventure Viking movie and you have to manage your expectations of what are going to watch otherwise marketing may disappoint you this movie admittedly is not going to be for everyone...., this movie is like taking a time machine and living in that period of time. It's a movie that is brutal not only in it's content but the way it portrays a world that is truly rough, and brutish and alien to our own culture and where characters are(understandably so) not as relatable as what we are used to see, and that have a strong belief in fate and various spiritual aspirations which are hard for us to comprehend and reconcile, and people living in a time period in which life is fragile, fleeting, short and cheap, but characters who are gritty and real, because this movie is not glamorizing anything whatsoever regarding war or viking culture. It is honest and uncompromising!
Put this aside this is an epic tale that I encourage you to watch because of it's world building, it's art and the passion that is clearly gone into making this. It's not a simple movie it's a film! And it's very much art unlike what a lot of other things we are seeing nowadays, visually stunning, simple in concept but striking and memorable in it's execution, and very personal stylized and unique...The performances and acting are taken very seriously and are anything but cheesy or ridiculous.... A true return to what a realistic gritty epic adventure as opposed to a 'Hollywood-ized' blockbuster truly is.
Robert Eggers's third movie, scoring a 3 out of 3 hits with this, you may need a bit of time to digest and appreciate it but if you like film, you won't be disappointed as some of the last shots and images and lines of the movie were to me so profound, beautiful and cathartic that they had me shaking in my seat!