An absurd, but highly entertaining, tale of a humanoid alien crash landing in 8th Century Norway, losing his dragon-like captive and allying with a bunch of locals to fight off said dragon, whom seems to have taken a fancy to both devastating Viking villages and consuming human flesh.
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VALHALLA RISING (2009)
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One-Eye is a mute slave of great physical strength who breaks free of his captors and, with his child colleague Are, sets off on a journey that takes him across the sea through a near endless fog to a strange new land that is not the Promised Land they seek.
There are shades of Herzog here, hints of Malick, maybe even Tarkovsky, the landscapes are terrific, the photography awesome and the score engaging. 'Valhalla Rising' has been variously hailed as 'unbearably self-important', 'a masterpiece
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