This is another movie in the lines of 10,000 B.C. where you have the ingredients for a fun filled dumbed out action fest, but instead you it cooks for too long, the flavor of fun is burned out, and all you have is the residual DUMB.How could you mess this up? The story is simple enough. Unlike 10,000BC, it doesn't make the mistake of not really giving us enough action. The problem here is the directing of the action. Darkness is fine, but I still like seeing what I'm.. seeing. The armor the vikings was so convoluted and generic looking, they were like the old timey equivalent of the convoluted Transformers from the live action movie. Take a camera. Put it in a burlap sack filled with bones, pots, pans, dirt, and some blood. Now give the sack a good shake and splice the footage into this movie in place of the action scenes. Nobody would notice the difference. I didn't love 300, but at least it got the job done.