I just rented this movie and seen it for the first time last night. I was actually pleasantly surprised. I liked it alot more than I thought I would. The movie changed alot of things from the original tale of Beowulf which sucks, but hey it's not supposed to be a word for word copy of the original story it's just based on it. It has a kind of corny, over the top, comic book type vibe to it but I think that was obviously their intention. It's not like it's some deep, soul searching, classic of a film or anything. But it is never the less pretty good entertainment. I'm just glad to see Hollyweird portray and glamorize Norse culture and mythology in any way. I liked how they kept mentioning Odin, Hopkin's character kept saying Odin be praised throughtout the movie. It's a welcome relief just to see a movie with all White characters, based on White culture/mythology, and a White hero for a change. Instead of hollyweird allows portraying the black guy as the hero and the nordic looking White guy as the evil villain like they always do these days. (Like in Blade). So to make a long story short I'd recommend any WN or just any White person in general to watch it at least once. I actually enjoyed it alot more than I thought I would, one of the best movies to come outta Hollyweird in quite some time(not that that's saying much :rolleyes:) I usually don't even bother to watch any new movies nowadays. But I think I'm actually going to watch this one again before it has to go back to the rental place.