Royal Deceit

1994

Action / Adventure / Drama

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 24% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 24% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 2668 2.7K

hanging pre viking age hayloft

Plot summary

A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.

Director

Gabriel Axel Photo
Gabriel Axel

Top cast

Kate Beckinsale Photo
Kate Beckinsale as Ethel
Christian Bale Photo
Christian Bale as Amled
Helen Mirren Photo
Helen Mirren as Geruth
Tony Haygarth Photo
Tony Haygarth as Ragnar
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
991.77 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 4
1.8 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by NBborn 4 / 10

Make sure you see the long version

Before I watched this movie I quickly checked the user reviews, as I usually do, and was excited to see that it came from the source material for Hamlet. So I settled down with the dog and the popcorn. Half-way through I paused the movie and came back here to see if I could find out what the people who posted positive reviews were drinking or smoking because the movie I was watching was awful. From what I can tell it really, really, really, REALLY matters which version you are seeing. If it is not a very long movie, run away. Run. Very. Far. Away. The short version is a hacked up mess that makes no sense and the actors (except Byrne and Mirren and sometimes Bale) look wooden. And the 'crowd' scenes. Oh dear. (By the way this review would have been a lot shorter except for this odd length rule. Hope you weren't bored.)
Reviewed by noah-11 4 / 10

A terrible waste of some very talented people

Call this Prince of Jutland, call it Royal Deceit, the only thing tragic about this film is the terrible waste of some very talented people. Christian Bale-heads in particular will be sad to see him in this retelling of the Hamlet legend from material presumably closer to the source, but stuck with a screenplay that hasn't an ounce of poetry and cinematography that wouldn't do for a TV movie of the week. Bale applies himself manfully, as does Gabriel Byrne, but one is embarrassed for them speaking thudding dialogue. Greatest embarrassment of all perhaps is rendered the great Helen Mirren who, like her co-stars, gives it her U.K. all, but is undermined by a tackiness of production and a cast of extras who mill around like location gawkers in medieval drag. Please. Spare us.
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