I'm in this movie, with a small role, so I pretty much expected it to be rubbish. Since I naturally have blonde hair and blue eyes (note, viking ancestry) but they died my hair and beard dark brown, and stuck a wig on me. I noted a comment about the bad wigs, yes, I agree. However, having just watched it I was pretty surprised to see that it wasn't the most horrific film I've ever seen. There are plenty of 3 star films on IMDb that are far, far worse. At least it has a storyline that goes from beginning to end (it may be about as predictable as an episode of Bob the Builder, but at least it's there), and a few pretty nasty deaths. The sets and stuff looked OK, but the Compositing was generally crap (hence the sets look like polystyrene quite often because the shoddy post-production guys didn't do their job very well). I wasn't a fan of the colour grade in any way. Yes, the hell hound was woeful. It looked basically half finished, and I laughed hard once it came on screen.
BUT - all that aside, I watched it to the end and it entertained me, which I think is all it ever set out to do. Lets face it, is anybody going to sit and watch a film that looks like this expecting high art and deep meaningful dialogue? Did you watch Conan the Barbarian for the plot? Has any Vin Diesel/Steven Segal/Jason Statham movie had any redeeming features other than some occasionally good violence?
