I do not really know how this flick earned a 6/10 at IMDb, as I found very little in it to be interesting. The scenery adds a lot to the movie, but in my humble opinion the overall performance by the actors is poor with the exception of Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar and Sarah Polley as Selma.
There were scenes where I did not know whether or not to laugh. I conceived those scenes as meant to be 'serious', yet I only found them hilarious such as when Grendel is enraged beating himself with two rocks while screaming in what I felt was a boyish kind of way (which is hilarious since Grendel is after all meant to be a large troll and thus his character ought to own some vocal power, does he not?). My impression was thus that his character together with the rest of the film is depicted rather weak and poor. As mentioned earlier, Skarsgård and Polley do a good job though, especially the latter (who is incredibly hot by the way, I just had to add that, which I think is the first time I ever comment on someone's looks on IMDb :)). Yet I am afraid their performances cannot save this flick, and when the credits rolled I felt that this was a waste of time. Even more annoying was that quite a few Geats and Danes spoke with a Scottish accent which feels like joke to me, being half Swede and half Dane. Could they not have conducted a bit of research before or was the Scottish accent just the most convenient way to depict early Scandinavians since viewers outside Scandinavia would not care? 4/10
There were scenes where I did not know whether or not to laugh. I conceived those scenes as meant to be 'serious', yet I only found them hilarious such as when Grendel is enraged beating himself with two rocks while screaming in what I felt was a boyish kind of way (which is hilarious since Grendel is after all meant to be a large troll and thus his character ought to own some vocal power, does he not?). My impression was thus that his character together with the rest of the film is depicted rather weak and poor. As mentioned earlier, Skarsgård and Polley do a good job though, especially the latter (who is incredibly hot by the way, I just had to add that, which I think is the first time I ever comment on someone's looks on IMDb :)). Yet I am afraid their performances cannot save this flick, and when the credits rolled I felt that this was a waste of time. Even more annoying was that quite a few Geats and Danes spoke with a Scottish accent which feels like joke to me, being half Swede and half Dane. Could they not have conducted a bit of research before or was the Scottish accent just the most convenient way to depict early Scandinavians since viewers outside Scandinavia would not care? 4/10