Viking
— Blood laws call for revenge!
2016
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Viking
2016
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The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...
Countries:
RU
Languages:
Russian
Runtime:
2hrs 13min
Status:
Released
Release date:
2016-12-29
Release format:
Streaming
— Mar 18, 2017
Quite a lot of wrong data from people thinking this is the TV show huh?
Anyways, I've had Viking on my watchlist for a while since I thought the trailer looked quite nice and given that it's a Russian production it would certainly be unique. And unique it was... as this was quite a huge production (6 years) centered around not much of a story and a lot of nonsense. To be fair... I hardly grasped the initial setup from the intro given the subtitles speed but subsequent scenes made it quite clear that this was mainly a background for battle sequences (alongside Vikings) which are not exactly all that good either.
Vladimir as the hero of the story does little to carry this along and is often just seen failing at this job. After a certain, quite moronic, battle in support of Vladimir's Jesus-esque look I just stopped caring and switched to my bad movie goggles to enjoy the rest. So yes, the bad IMDB reviews are not just from stuck up Russians hating solely on the historical accuracy.