The Northman review: Do I not entertain you?

Gavin Allen
5 min readMay 4, 2022

Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk and Willem Dafoe

Run time: 137mins

The story: In 895AD, child Prince Amleth sees his father murdered by his uncle Fjölnir (Bang) and flees to save his own life, vowing vengeance. Years later, Amleth (Skarsgard) has a vision predicting his success in avenging his father by saving his mother (Kidman) and killing hs uncle. Amleth escapes his berserker tribe to hide as a slave under his uncle’s nose. There he meets a sorceress named Olga…

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Gavin Allen

Digital Journalism lecturer at Cardiff University. Ex-Associate Editor of Mirror.co.uk and formerly of MailOnline, MSN UK and Wales Online.