This movie made me so angry that I registerd this account in order to warn other people about it.
It is really, really, really bad. The script seems like it was written by an AI given the prompt "do a film in the style of Tarantino about Stockholm Bloodbath, also add many girlboss characters and humor". And that is not an exageration.
I was watching this in a movie theatre not even a kilometer from the site where the actual Bloodbath of 1520 occured. The theatre was not even half full and people in the audience kept leaving as the movie played. It is that bad.
First of all, it tries to be international by having the actors speak English, but it doesn't really bother to explain what the Kalmar Union was about (which is fairly unknown to people south of Denmark).
It was marketed as a dark comedy with bizzarre features, which yes I'm on board for that, but it... it just isn't.
It is not funny. You can tell where the film maker intended the audience to laugh, but there was no sound at all in the theatre I went to. It was just painfully silent.
Also they assumed that the audience are not familiar with such unknown films as KIll Bill, A knight's tale or Robin Hood the prince of thieves.
About the plot: It is straight up copied from Kill Bill, with the exeption that the main character in Kill Bill is a master assasin and the main character in this film asks her sister to train her into a girl boss during like one day. IT IS THAT BAD.
The two leads are two young girlboss women who girlboss around with fantasy armour wielding several weapons and stealth tactics. Also, one of them is named Freja, which made me physically cringe.
For the historical bits I can say that it is just straight out the window with most aspects. The film makers add a lot of anachronistic ideas in the characters, like the idea of nations, ateism, and off course a woman who wants to go on a journey of self discovery. Also one character looks straight into the camera and talks about "social class systems". All of these were not really present concepts in 1520's Nordic society. But I digress.
The costumes and sets are HORRIBLE. The interiour of the Stockholm keep looks like a wealthy lady's apartment during her "bohemian phase" with taxidermy animals, plants and a million candles buring all the time.
For the historical persons who are depicted, it is really, really bad. I'm only going to talk about one of them as this rant is already too long:
During the siege the defense of Stockholm was led by a young lady named Kristina Gyllenstierna, the widow of the former leader. She did not cave in until eventually forced to. She is so important to the Stockholm identity that she is placed as a statue outside of the royal palace. What does this movie do with her? They turn her into a whiny nag and then replace her with the creator's own girl boss character.
IT IS THAT BAD.
Giving up the defence is not really a bother to her, she does not care. Physically painful to watch. All the other characters are equally horrible.
Also they did only have a budget to do like 5 executions (where there were around 80 on the actual day). Most scenes are people siting around tables talking. Because sometimes the film wants to be a historical drama, and sometimes it wants to be Tarantino. Like why.
Also it is 2,5 hours long but it feels like even longer.
And this is a shame, because you could do SO MUCH with this subject matter. We were 5 people in our part and 3 wanted to leave during the film, but we soldiered on. As we travelled back home, I can only describe the mood as "angry". People were actually angry over how bad this film was.
It is really, really, really bad. The script seems like it was written by an AI given the prompt "do a film in the style of Tarantino about Stockholm Bloodbath, also add many girlboss characters and humor". And that is not an exageration.
I was watching this in a movie theatre not even a kilometer from the site where the actual Bloodbath of 1520 occured. The theatre was not even half full and people in the audience kept leaving as the movie played. It is that bad.
First of all, it tries to be international by having the actors speak English, but it doesn't really bother to explain what the Kalmar Union was about (which is fairly unknown to people south of Denmark).
It was marketed as a dark comedy with bizzarre features, which yes I'm on board for that, but it... it just isn't.
It is not funny. You can tell where the film maker intended the audience to laugh, but there was no sound at all in the theatre I went to. It was just painfully silent.
Also they assumed that the audience are not familiar with such unknown films as KIll Bill, A knight's tale or Robin Hood the prince of thieves.
About the plot: It is straight up copied from Kill Bill, with the exeption that the main character in Kill Bill is a master assasin and the main character in this film asks her sister to train her into a girl boss during like one day. IT IS THAT BAD.
The two leads are two young girlboss women who girlboss around with fantasy armour wielding several weapons and stealth tactics. Also, one of them is named Freja, which made me physically cringe.
For the historical bits I can say that it is just straight out the window with most aspects. The film makers add a lot of anachronistic ideas in the characters, like the idea of nations, ateism, and off course a woman who wants to go on a journey of self discovery. Also one character looks straight into the camera and talks about "social class systems". All of these were not really present concepts in 1520's Nordic society. But I digress.
The costumes and sets are HORRIBLE. The interiour of the Stockholm keep looks like a wealthy lady's apartment during her "bohemian phase" with taxidermy animals, plants and a million candles buring all the time.
For the historical persons who are depicted, it is really, really bad. I'm only going to talk about one of them as this rant is already too long:
During the siege the defense of Stockholm was led by a young lady named Kristina Gyllenstierna, the widow of the former leader. She did not cave in until eventually forced to. She is so important to the Stockholm identity that she is placed as a statue outside of the royal palace. What does this movie do with her? They turn her into a whiny nag and then replace her with the creator's own girl boss character.
IT IS THAT BAD.
Giving up the defence is not really a bother to her, she does not care. Physically painful to watch. All the other characters are equally horrible.
Also they did only have a budget to do like 5 executions (where there were around 80 on the actual day). Most scenes are people siting around tables talking. Because sometimes the film wants to be a historical drama, and sometimes it wants to be Tarantino. Like why.
Also it is 2,5 hours long but it feels like even longer.
And this is a shame, because you could do SO MUCH with this subject matter. We were 5 people in our part and 3 wanted to leave during the film, but we soldiered on. As we travelled back home, I can only describe the mood as "angry". People were actually angry over how bad this film was.