Dave The Viking

It was , ehh. Nothing spectacular in my opinion. The cinematography was as good as you would expect from a high budget film, though it is extremely dark most of the time. The soundtrack would be forgettable if it wasn’t seemingly the main focus of the dialogue, at points overshadowing it so much, that I practically needed subtitles. It’s excruciatingly long with much of the dialogue doing nothing to advance the story. I read the books and have seen everything in film to do with this story, and this film isn’t going to be the “one”. I gave it two stars because of the CGI and not much else.

The best part of this movie was the ending. Mostly because it was over. I feel like the script was written in crayon, and the actors where just helping someone’s kid with his high school film. The CGI looks like something a freshman animation artist did and posted on YouTube, because he got some mid grade pirated software the night before. But worst of all, the character building is like watching someone who works in an office with no construction experience, try to build a house. It might sort of look like a house, but it’s an absolute disaster that falls apart immediately. This movie is films participation trophy child. “Look! I won to!” “Sure ya did buddy! Here’s your lollipop!” There’s no “particular set of skills” that one of the greatest actors of our time used. And Lawrence should have taken the blue pill, and skipped this experience. But at least they made an IQ 80 attempt at being “woke” by throwing some basic today’s movement BS in there. Also, way to polarize the “chauvinistic white male” because, you know how we are.... All in all, well it’s a bad movie at it’s best.