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Nice retelling of Beowulf, lots of macho adventure, although the movie built to a plateau, not a peak. Haven't seen an ending disappoint like this since 1980's Popeye.
But this wasn't a retelling of Eaters of the Dead, the book Crichton wrote that this film is supposedly based on. I haven't read that book in many years, but the eaters of the dead were NOT human, but instead some sort of smelly neanderthal or bigfoot offshoot of the primate family tree. Hence the book was placed in science fiction sections of bookstores, not in the travelog area.
I was amazed to find that in the movie the heroes were instead up against a really big inbred disfunctional family (probably sharing the surname Starkadder). I got chills watching the ending of the movie because the evil witch Beowulf battles reminded me strongly of my mother-in-law, but how many people in the audience had that nasty confluence of reality and fiction to help them out?
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