Let me state the obvious first: norse mythology is awesome, and I love films and stories about it.
This film starts promising, has a charming tone going on, but loses its appeal about at the midpoint. You can basically use a timer to predict the mandatory story beats from there, including a very constructed "bad guys are closing in" beat. From there on, it's basically a slightly better Roland Emmerich film that really needs you to shut your brain off.
The VFX are pretty decent to glorious, the acting mostly absolutely fine, the score a bit wanna-be but acceptable, but the script just tries to stick to hollywood procedure, which ultimately is its downfall.
If you're into norse mythology as well and don't mind a cheesy, off-the-shelf script, this is your jam. If you expect a bit more, you won't find it here.
This film starts promising, has a charming tone going on, but loses its appeal about at the midpoint. You can basically use a timer to predict the mandatory story beats from there, including a very constructed "bad guys are closing in" beat. From there on, it's basically a slightly better Roland Emmerich film that really needs you to shut your brain off.
The VFX are pretty decent to glorious, the acting mostly absolutely fine, the score a bit wanna-be but acceptable, but the script just tries to stick to hollywood procedure, which ultimately is its downfall.
If you're into norse mythology as well and don't mind a cheesy, off-the-shelf script, this is your jam. If you expect a bit more, you won't find it here.