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(2hrs 17mins)

📣A History of Violence:
‘Hamlet’ meets ‘Licence to Kill’ via ‘Event Horizon’-levels of mutilation in this Viking revenge saga.
If you liked ‘The Green Knight’ (but felt it had all the bite of ‘A Knight’s Tale’), then start paddling your nearest longboat to see this!

👍Slavic spell:
The whole cast act (and freeze) their pants off!
Incredibly strong acting all round.
Credit to Björk's unsettling Seeress,
Tyrant-in-making Gustav Lindh (from ‘Riders of Justice'),
And Oscar Novak as young Amleth undertaking an extremely steep (and heart-wrenching) learning curve.

👎Gates of Hell:
Plot logic, dodgy accents and unsubtle direction may hobble your way to Valhalla.
And the hero’s day job is village raiding = murder, rape, slavery.
In another film, and from the uncle’s perspective, wouldn’t The Northman be the villain here?…

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