I think it has a lot to offer general audiences and they did a really good job not advertising the weirder pagan/animalistic stuff. A decade ago this might be the smash of the summer but if even Ambulance can’t do numbers, I guess what hope does Hamlet filtered through Norse mythology have? With how popular Norse stuff has been lately thanks to Vikings, God of War, Assassins Creed and so on it seemed like everything was lining up for this movie but…I guess it needed Thor and Loki to cameo, eh?

In my personal Eggers rankings this doesn’t hang with his first two but that’s pretty relative. It’s an awesome movie with a lot of good crowd pleaser type moments as well as all the meticulous realism you come to Eggers for mixed with just enough fantastic delirium to keep you on your toes.

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