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I approached this movie with caution after reading a couple of the reviews here, and was pleasantly surprised. It is not a super violent or scary film - it is rated PG-13 after all - but it does have its fair share of tension and holds your interest throughout.
The plot has been given in another review so I'll just give some highlights: The scenery is gorgeous and beautifully photographed. Norway and Finnmark have some breathtaking vistas and the cinematographer captures it all. It's a pleasure to watch a movie where a filmmaker will carefully compose a shot, use a tripod and deliver the cinematic awe one hopes for in a film as opposed to the innumerable, annoying shaky cam films we've been enduring for the last decade by second rate filmmakers.
The CGI is top notch. The serpent actually feels solid and 3 dimensional in its interaction with the environment and actors. Compare this to the crap churned out by The Asylum and found in any SyFy original movie where the creatures look like cartoons badly superimposed on the film.
The script is well thought out. Characters speak and behave in a way that you can recognize. They have real interactions that ring true; these people feel real. Again, compare this with the junk that passes for plot and characterization in many recent SyFy films which present cartoonish, cardboard cutout characters who just pose for the camera and get killed, usually while uttering pointless inanities. In Ragnarok, I actually cared about what was happening to the characters.
And to adrianmurray45 who called the acting here bad - my friend, you need to watch a LOT more films. The acting here, apart from some sketchy moments with the young boy, was fine. You want bad acting? Check out any Uwe Boll film (yeah, I went there) and then get back to me, 'kay? You do not understand what bad acting is.
It's not a great film, but a solidly entertaining PG-13 adventure.
score 7/10
rstef1 29 December 2014
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