Filmed throughout the Highlands, Nicolas Wending Refn’s Viking spectacle is a truly visionary film featuring a spectacular performance from Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) who plays ‘One Eye’ - a fearsome fighter, enslaved by the chieftain Barde who is only let out to fight either for money or for land.

With the help of a young boy, One Eye escapes his captor and joins a group of ‘Christian Vikings’ on their way to Jerusalem and the Promised Land.

Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (The Pusher Trilogy, Bronson) is one of the most exciting at work today, his use of colour and the camera is impressive. The Scottish countryside has rarely looked so dark and ominous.