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I liked this movie adaptation, but I wonder how successfully one can make a movie based upon an original story that to my modern tastes was fragmented. I gave the movie a 9 noting some of the liberties taken by the screenplay. I don't consider the original Beowulf story to be a masterpiece but an interesting, early precursor of English literature. Perhaps, it was because I didn't read the story in the original Old English - my loss. One of the oldest pieces of writing in English, the original Beowulf seemed darker and less balanced than this movie. I would be curious about the comparisons that other moviegoers draw between the movie and the story.

I would recommend the movie. and suggest that it is a nice way for a college student or college class to get an introduction into the dark world of the Vikings and the Nordic myths that infused itself into the old Anglo-Saxon myths.