The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.
Gerard Butler
Beowulf
Spencer Wilding
Grendels Father
Stellan Skarsgård
Hrothgar
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
Grendel
Hringur Ingvarsson
Young Grendel
Gunnar Eyjólfsson
Aeschere
Tony Curran
Hondscioh
Philip Whitchurch
Fisherman
Ronan Vibert
Thorkel
Rory McCann
Breca
Martin Delaney
Thorfinn
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Unferth
Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir
Wealtheow
Sarah Polley
Selma
Eddie Marsan
Father Brendan
Gísli Örn Garðarsson
Erik
Director
Sturla Gunnarsson
Novel
Anonymous
Screenplay
Andrew Rai Berzins
March 16, 2019
5
Not a bad little piece, but sort of out of its time. If it wasn't for the cast (and what a cast) I would have assumed this movie was made at least a decade earlier than it actually was. The dialogue's mix of contemporary and faux medieval was also particularly odd, and the effects were... I don't want to say bad... But, again, seems like the sort of quality that might have come about in the early 90s more than mid 00s.
_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._