Review of The Northman (2022) by Inspexor — 02 May 2022

It's a good movie for a trashy-movie-night with your friends I guess.

When I went to the movie with my friends we had to hold back laughter for like half of the time.

The reason behind this is that you can't take the movie serious forIt's a good movie for a trashy-movie-night with your friends I guess.

When I went to the movie with my friends we had to hold back laughter for like half of the time.

The reason behind this is that you can't take the movie serious for various reasons.

1.) a very flat and predictable story; the classic good guy vs bad guy; why is the bad guy bad? because he wanted more power or sth; and not to forget the classic "coincidental" romance that developes and that the good guy is the "chosen one" bla bla bla.

2.) the characters and their behaviour is not believable at all and they sometimes act out of character for absolutely no reason - I just have that picture in mind where this guy's family gets killed and he just stands in the doorway and watches; not an inch of emotion lmao; it's no natural reaction in any way for no human being ever.

3.) 0 historical accuracy; nearly nothing about what I saw about "northmen" in that movie is actually true; they get depicted like what a child would describe them to be and nearly every stereotype people have about vikings was glorified in that movie; the only thing that's missing is that they get horns on their helmets lol.

4.) In general not very believable stuff and unnecessary drama like climbing a defense wall with nothing but an axe and hands; a boy only gets pushed to the ground and dies but not really (?); weird plot twists that don't make any sense; deus ex machina moments; very unrealistic fighting scenes...

I could go on and on about what's trashy about the movie but appearently according to the average ratings on this site trashy isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Just not my type of movie unfortunately.