Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

The Couchpotatoes I watched the English dubbed version of Birkebeinerne. I wished it would have been in Norvegian though because dubbed versions most of the time are just no good enough. You lose the feel of reality. And with this one it wasn't good either. The voices just sounded fake to the story. It made the actors look like amateurs. I'm sure they're not but they're also not the greatest actors ever. Even not with their original voices. The story is to weak to be entertaining. In fact the only thing that I thought was good were the skiing shots and the beautiful snowy scenery's. But the story was just not great, even if it was based on a true story. It looked all made by amateurs. The singing and praying didn't do any good either to the story. I really doubt that in that time there were a lot of Catholics in those regions. More heathens so the praying scenes made it look unreal. So to me the only good thing about this movie was the skiing. At least there was a lot of it in Birkebeinerne.

Leofwine_draca THE LAST KING is a serviceable action adventure film from Norway with a medieval setting. The feel of it is similar to GAME OF THRONES and VIKINGS, featuring a mix of action scenes and court intrigue, and it's fair to say that the former scenes work much better than the latter. The court intrigue stuff is a bit boring and predictable if I'm honest, but the action on the snowy mountain slopes is good fun.This film has strong production values and excellent cinematography which brings the icy locales to life. The costumes are all fine, and the performances are as authentic as you'd expect from a Norwegian production. I thought that Kristofer Hivju was particularly good but that may just be because I'm a fan of him in GAMES OF THRONES. Thorbjorn Harr, from VIKINGS, also appears. There's also a bad guy who looks like Klaus Kinski and is just as imposing.THE LAST KING makes novel use of skiing as part of the action which makes this feel like a medieval Bond film at times. The action scenes are generally quick and authentic, with only the odd bit of slow motion threatening to spoil things. The best parts of the film are those with the 'two men and a baby' theme. While it's never quite as gripping or as involving as I hoped, this is still a perfectly watchable story.

kosmasp I just recently watched an adaptation of a Jussi Adler-Olsen novel and some of the actors involved in that are in this one too. Funny to see them in such different roles in short amount of time. But it works and goes to show you that there are good actors all over the world (something that cannot be stressed enough, which is why I personally do watch as many and different movies as possible).But I'm probably preaching to the choir here. It's obvious that you're at least showing some interest already. And if you like movies with Vikings and stories where good and bad collide and all that juicy stuff, with some nice fighting choreography as well, than look no further. You've found what you're looking for. It may seem a bit confused at times, but it does have a clear goal in the end ... and it's really well made

MeetJohnSmith This is a fun action movie (sword and romance) set in really beautiful winter scenery. If you like Game of Thrones, but want more snow with your ax wielding heroes, this is a great film for you.I saw it in a theater, and the audience was completely in to it; it's been awhile since I've been a theater where audience members shout out encouragement to characters on screen, and it's so fun to have a movie where the audience cheers at key points. I can't remember a film in which infants were used so effectively; you truly have a concern for the characters' safety. The casting of our four heroes (Thor, Skeivie, Inga and Haakon) is perfect. Skeivie looks like they decided to cast Clay Matthews of the Green Bay packers as a heroic viking warrior. I also found the particularly compelling the fight scenes. They obviously didn't have a budget that would enable them to have a cast of thousands for their battle scenes, and somehow that gives greater believe-ability to the fight scenes. Our main heroes don't (implausibly) kill hundreds of faceless stuntmen (as is so often the case in action movies and superhero movies these days). Instead, our heroes are faced with having to take on specific opponents who seem truly intent on our heroes' demise/destruction.Slightly implausible is the topography displayed in the movie -- truly beautiful, but who knew that 99% of the topography in Norway is downhill? (I know, downhill chase scenes on skis are more compelling than uphill chase scenes on skis). The only slight weak point I would identify is the sub-story line about the young princess. OK, we know that story line is useful to show our villain is a truly bad guy, but our princess looks like she was recruited from a local mall, and told "here, put on this dress and look scared"; they didn't give her much to work with, and it shows. But one could say the same about young female characters in some of the Star War movies. Some may find annoying too that there are little story lines that appear, and then are left unresolved, like what happens to the evil queen after she exits? Because of this, on occasion, one feels like the producer is setting up plot lines for future sequels. Hopefully that's true, and a sequel is coming! I'd buy tickets immediately!