Review – The Vikings

Before I watched this I was actually under the impression that Vikings were interesting. Just goes to show how wrong you can be. Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis ham it up as bitter enemies who don’t know they’re secretly brothers. To complicate matters further, they’re both in love with the same woman (Janet Leigh). The Norsemen end up coming across as sort of a medieval outlaw biker gang, serving as drunken foils for the soap opera machinations of the English. Even the battle scenes are unimpressive. The only thing that stood out from the viewing experience was just how bad the chemistry was between Curtis and Leigh, odd considering the actors were married at least for a time. See if desperate