“On passe du rire au larme et des larmes aux rires. Ultimately, the film’s greatest strength may also be its greatest liability: its refusal to play safe. It sprawls, it overindulges, and it risks bad taste. Yet in doing so, it feels alive in a way few films do. This is a comedy that stares unflinchingly at trauma, a melodrama unafraid of laughter, a fable that refuses easy morals. In a cinema landscape too often smoothed over and risk-averse, “The Last Viking” is a reminder that sometimes, the messiest stories are the ones that linger.”

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