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Watch: Valhalla Rising 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – 1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self..
Plot: Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
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Ratings:

	6.0/10 Votes: 60,898
	73% | RottenTomatoes
	61/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1025 Popularity: 10.401 | TMDB

Reviews:

Twilight of the grim, grey… um…

RELEASED IN 2009 and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, “Valhalla Rising” takes place in the 11th century where a one-eyed mute thrall (Mads Mikkelsen) obtains his freedom in the Scottish Highlands and joins a band of Viking Christians on a voyage to the Holy Land to fight in the Crusades, but the expedition doesn’t go as planned.

The movie definitely LOOKS and SOUNDS awesome with an ambient score reminiscent of Agalloch, but without the heavy riffing or manic drumming. It’s an artsy non-blockbuster with a tone akin to “Aguirre, The Wrath of God” (1972) and “Black Robe” (1991). “Apocalypto” (2006) is a good modern comparison, although the story isn’t as compelling as “Black Robe” or “Apocalypto.” It has elements of “Apocalypse Now” (1979) but the thin story just isn’t anywhere near as fascinating. Still, it’s okay.

There are some weak points, like the Viking chief saying “It’s a river” when this would’ve been obvious about an hour earlier when the mist first cleared (aduh). I’m sure the director would chalk it up to artistic license. Another issue is that the film is slow with not enough events to justify its runtime. As such, we get needlessly drawn-out scenes like the discovery of fresh water (which was obvious from the get-go of the sequence). The whole episode could’ve been done in a third of the time given.

THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour, 33 minutes and was shot in Scotland. WRITERS: Refn, Roy Jacobsen and Matthew Read.

GRADE: B

INTERPRETATION ***SPOILER ALERT*** (Don’t read further unless you’ve seen the movie).

The silent One-Eye is the incarnation of Odin. He is invincible and holds the power to see the future. He disdains the Christian Vikings who’ve usurped his influence over his people. He tests many in battle to see if they’re worthy, but finds none. Nevertheless, he sullenly sees his people off to their new (holy) land, America, where Scandinavians were the third most numerous immigrants. The Boy is a type of Thor, his son, who will sort of replace him in America once the grim god ironically sacrifices himself à la Jesus Christ.

It never manages to rise above its one trick.

Nicolas Winding Refn directs and Mads Mikkelsen stars in this ponderous exercise in arty veneers. Refn boldly strips back the dialogue and plot to reveal a picture big on ideas but poor in execution. As the story plods along, stopping only briefly for some guttural violence now and then, it becomes evident that the makers have made a painfully boring movie. At first the drained out colour photography looks like a masterstroke of ethereal atmospherics, but this also wears off and only compounds the overall feeling of monotony that pervades the pic.

Hugely disappointing venture from a director capable of so much more. 3/10

A strangely captivating movie
“Valhalla Rising” is a strange movie that will split the audience into lovers and haters like you can see in the comments here. To me its these movies that are most interesting. If a movie goer sees a movie like this with breathtakingly beautiful and artistic cinematography on a low budget and still rates it with one or two stars, its either pure ignorance or something was struck that resonated in a negative way.

I already loved the previous movies of director Winding Refn but this one goes into a totally different direction. Its hard to explain the plot because most of it happens in the viewers head. What you see is mostly mythological and religious symbolism all revolving around the main character “One eye”. A warrior who fights with a raw power of which we never know its human or not because he is mute and keeps the same empty expression in his face throughout the movie (only in some scenes it seems like hints of a smile shine through).

The movie starts with “One eye” held captive and has to fight battles to the death in which he always prevails. This first part of the movie has some raw violence in it and could be viewed as the “most entertaining” part because after this “Valhalla Rising” turns into a slow moving journey to an unknown place with barely any dialog and a droning ambient soundtrack.

Its hard to say what really happens in the several segments the movie is split into but the religious tone (“Hell”, “Sacrifice”) already show this is not a movie on a more existential level. And as I am still trying to piece the impressions of “Valhalla Rising” together I find that its a movie that sticks with you long after watching if you let yourself dive into the dense atmosphere. The imagery is stunning throughout, the most simple shots like a close up of knifes being washed in a river look like a beautiful painting and the constant difference between the beauty of the cinematography and the cold colors, raw violence and the dark droning soundtrack are as captivating as Mads MIkkelsen playing the cold expressionless “One Eye” like a force of nature.

I can’t put my finger on what sucked me into this movie but “Valhalla Rising” is an experience open minded movie fans should not miss and I am looking forward to future projects from this promising director.

It’s…confusing
Know this…if you saw the title of this movie and immediately imagined an epic battle between Thor and…ummm…someone, you were wrong. Oh boy, were you wrong. The fact of the matter is that this movie is much less Iron Man action flick and much more semi-pretentious art-house flick. It’s slow. VERY slow. There’s not much in the way of dialog or even plot. It’s basically just a group of guys wandering around lost having very disjointed conversations. Seriously…that’s about it. Oh…and one of the guys never talks so those conversations just got even more limited.

That being said, the movie isn’t without it charms. The cinematography is excellent. Pretty much any wide shot or establishing shot is pretty damn beautiful (even if it’s a green screen). Parts of the movie are intriguing, or at least just enough to make you (well…me at least) keep watching.

In the end, for me it kind of leaned towards being a bit boring. I mean…hardly anything happens. Take away all of those long wide shots, as good as they look, and take away all of the parts where people are just sitting around not saying anything and you’ve got a movie that’s maybe 30 minutes long. So as much as I wanted to like it, there’s not a whole lot of it to like in terms of plot and dialog. And much of what is there is kind of poorly put together or just plain confusing. All in all it’s definitely a movie that would play well on an HDTV with a Blu Ray player for the great visuals, but aside from that kind of falls flat on it’s face in most other respects.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min), 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (Toronto International) (Canada)
Budget 5641880
Revenue 30638
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
Director Nicolas Winding Refn
Writer Nicolas Winding Refn, Roy Jacobsen, Matthew Read
Actors Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Alexander Morton
Country Denmark, United Kingdom
Awards 4 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Red One Camera
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK
Film Length 2,534 m (Sweden), 2,557 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Redcode RAW (4K) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)