DVD Review: Valhalla Rising

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What starts out as a promisingly violent and giddily gory historical epic quickly devolves into scene after scene of navel-gazing philosophical ruminations that are more akin to the most confusing episodes of Lost than they are to the Scandinavian battle scenes of films like Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf and John McTiernan’s The 13th Warrior.

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