The Northman
Escaping, Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) lives a life of violence for years until he hears of Aurvandil's fall and exile to Iceland at which point he he decides to finally act upon his childhood oath of revenge.
No good will come of this.
CW: bloody violence, slavery
The publicity for this makes it seem like this will be more a straight action movie than it is. Yes there's action but this is unusually epic.
It's a genuinely adult movie with actual character development and bits of mysticism that in some ways feels like "Conan The Barbarian" in the way it portrays the life of a savage man driven by fate as a person, not just a skeleton to hang action scenes from. (Yes I really do think the first Conan should be taken seriously).
The main characters all have complexity even if they don't appear to at first and it takes a turn 2/3 of the way in that is nothing unusual for literature but that a lesser movie would have skipped just to get us to some more action.
They don't make many like this, a visceral portrait of a grim life and inevitable fate, highly recommended 9/10.
