RobbZombae posted:

As for your point about Amleth having beliefs and traditions, yes, he follows them to the death and is rewarded for it. Where was the conflict? The murder of his mother and half-brother are not depicted in a way that would wholly turn audiences against him and his goal - his mother morphs into a strange sexist archetype trying to put her tongue down his throat and dies after stabbing him in the chest and the child stabbed him multiple times and was killed in a sort of accidental way where he was cut by his sword after being thrown off his shoulders. I didn't detect the nuance or intelligence in those deaths or a commentary on revenge, as Amleth lay dying he wasn't thinking of the regret of that but that his seed lives on in two angelic little blonde babies. Skeevy..