Review of Redbad

Good hopes for this movie I had, cause another historical movie (Michiel de Ruyter) by this director was all right. This is something else. It's a mess. I couldn't believe this movie was taken serious and turned it off halfway. I'm not bothered by a bit of artistical liberties and I know it's not a documentary, but this insults the viewers. Almost nothing is historically correct. Castles, full armour, halberds didn't exist in that time. People wouldn't accept a WWII movie with soldiers walking around with AK47s. Though the early middle ages are not as well known to people it is kind of the same. It is misinforming people. Nowadays it is easy to check what the early middle ages looked like. So could the director have done. And there are lots of historians and archaeologist who would gladly help in advising. Probably for free. He shouldn't have called it Redbad if it was meant to be some kind of fantasy action movie. There where high expectations for this movie. I was also looking forward to it. There aren't many big movies about Dutch history. And it had a big budget for Dutch standard. Waste of money. This director should be ashamed and go back to Hollywood to make B-movie crap again..