This film has EVERYTHING! It's genius and the writer is a genius for managing to take every good thing possible that makes a film interesting and then stitch all those elements together without making a mess of it.It's enthralling from the first scene to the last. It may have a few flaws that other reviewers have picked on, but I was too dazzled by what I was seeing to notice any holes. It really is a visual feast and the acting is terrific too, plus there are real relationships/bonds created between the characters, meaning that it's not just all superficial action without any substance or reason.Added to the solidity of the whole thing and its knock-out concept we're also treated to first class SFX and a fantastic creature! There's nothing more that anyone could want who loves watching this type of genre. I'd recommend it to anyone and I could watch it over and over!

Well, I don't know if it can be called a "sci-fi" movie. You have at most 5 minutes of science fiction in the almost two hours that I lost by watching this movie. Also, it is not that exact historic if I put it that way. I'm not sure if these filmmakers know how real vikings looked like ? To recap, real vikings lived in Scandinavia, in subarctic climate (where it's damn cold). This movie shows us vikings in an unrealistic environment with volcanoes and lava, in an almost Mediterranean environment. The vikings walk with short sleeves, look like Americans, behave like Americans and have almost nothing in common with vikings, except few viking shields and a viking village. Come on, the filmmakers could do better than that. At least some effort would make the movie much more realistic. And I haven't seen one viking that is naturally blond or at least to look like one. Most of them have brown or black hair with some hair parts that are colored to blond. I mean everybody knows that the Scandinavian people are blond with pale skin (due to low levels of Melanin because they are not exposed to sun). It's because they live in winter lands :) Except these simple geographic and scientific facts that have nothing to do with this (not science, but more of a fiction) movie, it also lack creativity. It's full of plot holes. The story is undeveloped, so at least to say, and it has no twist at all. Action scenes have not much creativity in it and the whole idea of the movie ends where it has started: at the beginning. I won't recommend it to anyone.

Good actors portraying a different time and people that we see rarely in a major motion picture.A space traveler crashes on Earth circa AD 700. His co-pilot perishes but our traveler survives, as does his monster from his world, and it wreaks havoc on our planet.Whether or not the Vikings lived this way or what, it is an interesting time and filming locations used.So spaceman meets primitive society, teaches them how to fight/defeat nasty monster and assumes kingship and girl all in one. Still it is good entertainment.Time to play "Shields"!

Loved this movie in a general way. But somehow the editing seemed flawed. So much was left unsaid or untold. I keep feeling like there is a better (possibly a directors cut) that leaves in more of the details and parts that would have fleshed out the whole story in a more exciting way. Somehow the Advanced culture tech seemed to have been cut short and left me guessing and wondering about what was going on before he arrived on Earth. The historical aspects of life in a viking village were as authentic as one might hope for. Seems that was the best imagining of viking village life since "13th Warrior". Some of the older movies, Like "The Vikings" with I think Kirk Douglas did the typical Hollywood thing and made up the actual anthropological descriptions to suit the times the film was filmed in. But Outlander managed so very well in the description of life in the times department. I really love the movie! Hated the missing parts feeling.