A dark meditation on primal human drives: survival, revenge, faith in a higher power. Refn's palette is devoid of light; his script devoid of much hope. The effect is an unrelentingly bleak portrait of a Norse warrior whose travails reveal the truth of our mortality.
This review of Valhalla Rising (2009) was written by Jason F on 24 Sep 2011.
Valhalla Rising has generally received mixed reviews.
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