they're striking and give you something to look at between well-staged and sometimes berserk battles and hoary B-movie cliches
it'll do until the new season of the History Channel's Vikings comes along
Bastian Zach and Matthias Bauer actually have to come up with something other than people shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning each other to death. If only they had put this kind of effort into creating characters worth caring about in the first place