Gerard Butler, Spencer Wilding, Stellan Skarsgård, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Hringur Ingvarsson, Gunnar Eyjólfsson, Tony Curran, Philip Whitchurch, Ronan Vibert, Rory McCann, Martin Delaney, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir, Sarah Polley, Eddie Marsan
The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.
Not a bad little piece, but sort of out of its time. If it wasn't for the cast (and what a cast) I would have assumed this movie was made at least a decade earlier than it actually was. The dialogue's mix of contemporary and faux medieval was also particularly odd, and the effects were... I don't want to say bad... But, again, seems like the sort of quality that might have come about in the early ...