Console best movie i've ever seen.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

HughBennie-777 To say this a disappointment is the understatement of the century. A historical drama about Vikings in North America with a "throbbing black metal score" the box art pronounces. I thought I'd entered the promised land of Odin, himself. Forget it. Despite the Dimmu Borgir and Judas Priest on the soundtrack (all too briefly), this pointless and ponderous exercise in Medieval-Day-At-The-Park slop couldn't be considered a movie experience if you were on three grams of shrooms at a Renaissance Fair. The camera points into the sun for every other arty set-up, or is diffused through a Godawful selection of bendy, fish-eye lenses. The scenes, themselves, are nothing but wordless encounters alongside the art department's endless supply of campfires. The "leads", one of them the director, do nothing on screen except hike through forests and build more camp-fires. Some unlucky chickens are killed on screen and devoured, as well. The dialogue runs to "we're toast" and "this is some killer fish". Who wrote this thing, Bill and Ted? Compliments to one Viking's on screen discharge of feces, an enormous evacuation of bowel that must have been included in the film for laughs(?) Not even this magnificent, artistic choice redeems the movie of its horrible supporting soundtrack and a script that must have been conceived on a bar napkin. A true insult to metal, Vikings, and the god Odin. The film's subtitle is so exaggerated in its promise, I can only imagine it was added on as a joke, and it's # 3 rating is based solely on the copious amount of doo-doo excreted on screen.

Pierre I saw Severed Ways in theater a couple of weeks ago and haven't been able to get it out of my mind since. Of course it has it's flaws but keep in mind this was the director's (Stone) first feature and an extremely ambitious one at that.I'm so sick of seeing the same old independent garbage. Boy loves girl. Girl doesn't love boy but she loves Belle and Sebastion. Somebody makes a phone call on the hamburger phone to someone else who is a dying and pregnant and its official everyone loves Zooey Deschanel. Severed Ways is a Viking period piece made by a crew of about 8 people. How's that even possible. The soundtrack has Norwegian Black Metal and Judas Priest. Amazing! I thought the use of low def digital video wouldn't work for a period piece but the way it allowed the film to be shot with little to no lighting made it feel more authentic. The cinematography was beautiful even though sometimes the high shutter speed made it a little hard on the eyes. All in all Severed Ways is a step in the right direction for independent cinema. It's something new and different and I appreciate that. I know people will have trouble with pacing of the film but it's obvious that its deliberate and an attempt to show how two men would try to live off of a land they are not accustomed to. Sometimes the film took a comedic turn which took me out of the film a bit but it would eventually pull me back in. I'm excited to see what's next for these extremely independent young filmmakers.

william_fold2002 ...and where are YOUR cinematic masterpieces? How many Oscar winning films have you made, Jack? Severed Ways may have sucked, but at least they went out and actually tried to make a movie. I really hate all the would-be "Critics" here who do nothing but complain about how bad every movie is, but yet, haven't made anything worthwhile themselves. Jealousy isn't a very flattering thing, which most "Critics" seem to be.As far as the soundtrack is concerned, the music(although not really fitting into the movie very well), is at least different than the cookie-cutter music of almost every other "period" piece.

TenPercenter I saw this film at the LA Film Festival over a year ago and it I haven't been able to get it out of my mind. It was mesmerizing and poignant and definitely unlike anything I've seen before. It really stayed with me. In a weird way, it was a cross between Terrence Malick's "The New World" and some sort of Monty Pythonesque heavy metal movie. Sounds weird, but it was a great combination!! Excellent soundtrack by the way, again, strangely appropriate to have heavy metal music for a Viking historical drama. I have to admit, when it first started I thought "Oh god, can I sit through two hours of this?" because of the intense and strange camera angles and techniques, but after a few minutes I settled in and was drawn in to the simple story and grew to really care about these two Vikings. The ending has really stayed with me. It is a mesmerizing film.