Strongest Viking on Earth

February 4th, 2004 · No Comments

I watched Werner Herzog’s 2001 film Invincible tonight. Overall, it was pretty disappointing; an otherwise interesting story was ruined by bad acting and a flying kid at the end. The best part of the film was definitely the performance in the title role by Jouko Ahola, winner of a wide range of championships from “Strongest Man in North 1996” to “Strongest Viking on Earth IV 1996” to the pinnacle, “World’s Strongest Man” in both 1997 and 1999. As Coz would I’m sure agree, he’s no Magn?s Ver Magn?sson (who seems to have a movie project of his own going on), but his amateur acting skills brought a nice, unpolished touch to an otherwise overwrought film.

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