It is the only film at the festival to be shown 3 times with all 3 dates being sold out prior to screening.

Based on the famed epic poem, Beowulf and Grendel tells the astonishingly dull and hopelessly irrelevant story of a legendary warrior named Beowulf who must hunt down and kill a murderous troll before it does any more damage. Review by David Nusair.

"Beowulf and Grendel" will have its UK premiere on September 9, 2006 at the Phoenix Cinema in London.

It's intended as a cautionary tale about needless military intervention, as well as a commentary on the danger of making sweeping moral assumptions in foreign policy -- especially when dealing with trolls. The problem is, when you blur the moral lines of the Beowulf saga, you're left with nothing but a bunch of drunks in animal skins, scratching themselves. By Mick LaSalle.

Comprehensive 'Beowulf and Grendel' film review by Katherine Monk for The Ottawa Citizen.

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Here, Beowulf is not so much a hero, but a hatchet man, albeit a conflicted one who returns home weighed down more with guilt than gold. By David DiCerto.

In the prologue “A Hate is Born”, the first sight that catches your eye is an incredible view of a landscape and you are transported almost immediately into the Epic that is Beowulf.

'Beowulf and Grendel' is a ludicrous movie with mad Icelandic energy, severed body parts, lots of mead, grimy imagery and real frost on the characters' breath, reveals Jim Slotek in his review for the Toronto Sun.

In the hands of Sturla Gunnarsson, Beowulf and Grendel is a masterful film that fleshes out the decidedly one-sided epic poem, bringing Grendel to life with a humanity and warmth that adds layers of meaning to the old tale. By Kim Voynar.

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Things do get interesting when Grendel takes revenge on Beowulf’s best friend, but it’s simply too little too late. Review by Jeff Musgrave.

Beowulf and Grendel is never a cogent and interesting film even when avoiding such trappings of the genre minimizing the battle, but maximizing the sheer boredom that’s ever present on the cast. By Felix Vasquez Jr.

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This film is at its best when it's not talking. By Robert Horton.

Thought-provoking and poignant, the film was shot in Iceland with actors whose accents are, like the source material, often too dense to decipher.

Two elements of "Beowulf and Grendel" make a mixed-up and unbalanced picture nearly worthwhile. By Michael Phillips.

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Gerard Butler is a vision of unconflicted Viking charisma. By William Arnold.

Beowulf and Grendel isn’t an entirely satisfying adaptation, offers reviewer Mark Harris.

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'Epic film based on epic poem makes a few, mostly good, changes', says reviewer Adam Gaumont.

Sturla Gunnarsson is extremely satisfied with the decision to make Beowulf and Grendel a completely analogue film. By Anna Coutts.

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This movie won't be to everyone's taste, but it will certainly bedevil some dreams. By Tom Keogh.

Beowulf & Grendel is, for the most part, a successfully strange and strangely moving adventure. Reviewed by Terry Morrow for Scripps Howard News Service.

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