Sword of Xanten

[karohemd]

I'm going to leave part 2 for tomorrow but so far, it isn't that bad, actually, if you discount some rather blatant liberties they took with the Nibelungenlied.
The cast isn't bad, the acting is quite good, sets and costumes are adequate (if a bit too fantasy-like), I even quite liked Fafnir, the Lindwurm as it was quite close to the way a dragon in Nordic/Germanic myth is usually described and they did some good work on the CGI. For a film made for TV, it's not too shabby at all.

One thing, though, Julian Sands (Warlock) as Hagen doesn't quite work. I've always figured Hagen as a big hairy brute, not a cowardly, conniving bastard (although he was that, too, but less of a Wormtongue character). Might just be the version of the Nibelungenlied my gran used to read me when I was little (I need to have a look if I can find it when I'm home again, it had wonderful etchings as illustrations). Like with many sagas, there are always variations.