Absolutely Fantastic

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

7 years and a huge pile of cash was spent to create this completely non-watchable movie. It was positioned as the most accurate historical video document. Really?! In the very beginning they show a crossbow. In Russia. In 10th century. Really?! Helmets that they wear historically never existed. And so forth. The movie is full of moments that are not understandable and not related to the story line. Complete waste of time and money.

I saw this movie in St. Petersburg, Russia last weekend. I don't know Russian history in-depth so I can only evaluate this film as entertainment (not a history lesson). This film is made on a grand scale and it shines in some of the epic battle scenes of which there are plenty. Others didn't fare as well as they were filmed in dark fog which made them tedious and hard to watch. When the battle scenes work, they work well but when they don't, they slow the film's momentum. I also felt the story left me dangling by not doing any followup on Vladimir's relationships with with his young wife Rogneda, and Anne. All in all, the movie feels redundant after a while and runs a little too long. Still, that doesn't detract from some the fantastic battles earlier in the film which make this movie worth watching.

As a person who loves Nordic legends, the movie title interested me and with high expectations i decided to watch. After first 30 minutes i was completely disappointed, since the movie was not about vikings and Nordic culture. It turns about to be about Kievan Rus, and only Nordic related story was the group of vikings invited to fight for the movie Hero (Vladimir). However it is not a reason to name the movie as "Viking". The second disappointment was the movie story which was unclear and uncertain. There happened a lot of actions without a certain purpose. Now after 2-hour movie watching i can not say what particularly was this movie about, whether it was about fight between brothers or it was about Christianity. In addition to these there were several elements which were not related to either Russian or Nordic culture such as boats with Greek elements, roman legionary clothes of warriors, and of course the fact of metallic water pipeline, which was invented in Russia after 12th century. As a conclusion i would suggest movie creators to conduct a research before misrepresenting the story.

After watching the whole movie in cinema, I couldn't really understand what has the title in common with the movie itself. Neither history, nor drama, this movie is a total mess of illogical actions and was scenes. A bunch of bearded Slavonic men screaming out loud and struggling with obviously fake weapon, having no philosophy, moral or logical basement in their head. So what? is it enough to be called viking? Is it enough to make a movie? My biggest problem was not the fact that nothing in the movie looked realistic or solid: the weapons, helmets and ships taken from various historical and cultural environment. I am not too mad about the fact, that I don't believe the dialogues and speech 10 centuries ago were the same as I hear on contemporary Russian streets. But to have no solid and logical story-line and no any well defined character who is conscious enough ... in a 133 minute-long movie? That's totally insane. Sorry, but no more nowadays Russian filmography!