http://www.a1moviereviews.com/valhalla-rising/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:29:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.a1moviereviews.com/valhalla-rising/comment-page-1/#comment-9182 Nicolas Winding Refn Movies - List of Films, Analysis, Projects Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:03:00 +0000 http://www.a1moviereviews.com/?p=1680#comment-9182 [...] Valhalla Rising (2009) – This is not an action movie, so don’t go into it with that mindset. Sure, there are some quality scenes of grown men killing one another, but the rest is something akin to a surrealistic journey into the underworld with a one-eyed warrior (the wonderfully stoic Mads Mikkelsen) acting as our guide. I’ll confess to preferring the first half of the film over the second, although the Morten Soborg cinematography gives the entire movie a harsh, melancholy beauty. [...] [...] Valhalla Rising (2009) – This is not an action movie, so don’t go into it with that mindset. Sure, there are some quality scenes of grown men killing one another, but the rest is something akin to a surrealistic journey into the underworld with a one-eyed warrior (the wonderfully stoic Mads Mikkelsen) acting as our guide. I’ll confess to preferring the first half of the film over the second, although the Morten Soborg cinematography gives the entire movie a harsh, melancholy beauty. [...]

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