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Beowulf & Grendel
The life of Hrothgar, a young courageous and smart king of the Denmark, who has killed the evil troll that threatens the life of his people, has been changed completely, when many years after that accident, the son of the troll, who becomes a courageous warrior and returns to avenge the death of his father.
2 July 1969, Reykjavík, Iceland
13 November 1969, Paisley, Scotland, UK
22 November 1963, Reykjavik, Iceland
8 January 1979, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June1982, Kent, England, UK
24 August 1964, Iceland
9 February 1953
24 April 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
July 28, 2006
Beowulf's reality-driven approach suffers for lack of scope and questionable poetic license.
July 12, 2006
Andrew Rai Berzins' script spruces up long stretches of Old English with unexpected bursts of cussing and gleeful vulgarity that feel as misguided as everything else in the film.
July 13, 2006
This gristle-intensive R-rated version of Beowulf travels a predictable revisionist route.
August 09, 2006
If you're game for a strange and beautiful-looking new version of the (very) old legend, you can safely give this one a rental.
August 24, 2006
Gunnarsson has made a film that would make the real Beowulf and Grendel, if they ever really existed, quite proud.
October 07, 2006
ridiculous
July 27, 2006
[You can] feel the filmmakers yearning to have Beowulf and Grendel go all Rambo on each other. Instead, they keep pulling back for more Old English angst, as if they're torn between commerce and winning the approval of their high school English teacher.
August 12, 2006
A fascinating trip to the dark ages and a good story well told
July 14, 2006
A semi-mythic period piece, Beowulf & Grendel offers sublime scenery that's breathtaking and bone-chilling.
July 12, 2006
A muscular, ardently naturalistic retelling of the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon saga.
August 12, 2006
Trying to give us the true story behind the epic, the movie only reminds us of why humans write epics in the first place.
October 14, 2006
The thrilling beauty of this reading of Beowulf is that it makes [the characters] feel modern... These people live in the real world, not in a fable and not in a history book.