Granted, I only made it through about fifteen minutes of this movie, but from what I did watch, the writers seem to have done very little research about the Vikings. The whole thing reads a lot more like a story set in medieval England or Scotland than it does as a Viking story. Culture, clothing, customs, all full of anachronisms and inaccuracies. This is exemplified in one of the first scenes as we see two characters fighting - one wielding a very Scottish claymore. They may as well have been wearing tartan kilts.
Add to the mountain of anachronisms the feeble story and painfully droll dialogue and you are left with a pretty boring and hard to watch film. If you look through the reviews of Viking Destiny, many of its defenders will cite it's low budget and independent film status as reasons to cut it some slack, and yes, if it's worst errors had been things such as poor costume design, bad lighting, etc - maybe that would have been an excuse, but there is not excuse for bad writing, and that's where this movie falls down the most. In fact, it's only saving grace is that the actors do a valiant job of trying to wring as much character as they can out of the dry and uninspired writing - not that it does much good.
Overall, Viking Destiny is unequivocally a failure. Absolutely not worth a watch if you have any expectations whatsoever.
Add to the mountain of anachronisms the feeble story and painfully droll dialogue and you are left with a pretty boring and hard to watch film. If you look through the reviews of Viking Destiny, many of its defenders will cite it's low budget and independent film status as reasons to cut it some slack, and yes, if it's worst errors had been things such as poor costume design, bad lighting, etc - maybe that would have been an excuse, but there is not excuse for bad writing, and that's where this movie falls down the most. In fact, it's only saving grace is that the actors do a valiant job of trying to wring as much character as they can out of the dry and uninspired writing - not that it does much good.
Overall, Viking Destiny is unequivocally a failure. Absolutely not worth a watch if you have any expectations whatsoever.