Troll
Mountains will move.
When an explosion in the Norwegian mountains awakens an ancient troll, officials appoint a fearless paleontologist to stop it from wreaking deadly havoc.
Wokeness: 60%
Overall Score: 40%
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Anti-Christian at its core
While initially intrigued when it first came out, a watch of this movie on Netflix reveals its woke ideology. It is flagrantly Anti-Christian, it condemns the good news and the word of God in how the religion treats the titular monster. It also stars a feminist protagonist and a slightly incompetent male deuteragonist. If you cherish Christianity, don't watch this movie.
Created: 02-14-2025
Un-original, even in its wokeness.
Admitedly, I haven't set foot in Norway in a long while. But I don't remember it as being quite that diverse. The crowds, not the characters with lines. But women everywhere in public office, that part is accurate.
The rest (white men) are retarded.
Main character is a nordic, loud-mouthed boss bitch with a colossal sense of her own importance.
The only one in the room who can recognize footprints.
By the way, the prints, close up, are fairly small compared to the beast's size. 150 feet, and the character does say 50 meters. Big ambitions, tiny bugdet, I guess. Creature's nowhere that tall.
Nature shots are gorgeous. That's free. But well shot.
Comamndo guy looks gay, Dad's a loony, G-man looks oddly Indian. The father-daughter chemistry feels off to me (or maybe I'm lucky with me wee lass). The only (short) scene that did not feel contrived was the guys bonding over Call of Duty.
Script is Jurassic-zilla with a Scandinavian skin.
How does one apply fire to offset regeneration if their skin is stone? Why are their tongues organic? Why do they have tails? Wait, that one is normal.
Whatever, I just want my XP.
Same level of stupidity too: no real-life military would deploy infantry against anything that big. And possibly not organic. Big boy, big toy. Bunker buster, baby, cause there's no kill like overkill.
So yeah, _that_ kind of movie. Commando guy whips out his 416 after seeing the troll tank an artillery volley unscathed.
Godzilla or Cloverfield did it better, with a creature so vast that it defied modern weaponry. Then again, budget.
As for anti-Christianity: it's a staple of Nordic mythos that the pre-Christian creatures are not compatible with the new religion. Same as the Fay of Brittany. But trolls that can "smell the blood of a Christian man" go pretty far back in the folk tales, and are not a modern attack on Christians.
There's a definite 'eco' undertone, though, despite a jab at 'Greta'.
All in all, I don't think this movie is actively woke. It's passively woke, basically what 'acceptable' culture is to 'normal' people over there. Maybe even what the director / producers _think_ people want.
Yeah. That far gone.
Then again, it's from the guy who gifted us A-cup Tomb Raider (which I haven't seen), so maybe I'm wrong, and it's his attempt to placate normal people.
Also, it is rather mediocre.
Won't watch the sequel.
Created: 12-30-2025
