Amundsen's reviews
Media reviews
ABC
This boring Norwegian super production is about one of his biggest national heroes, the polar explorer Roald Amundsen, and it is divided in two more or less clear blocks or formats. On one hand, the fiction in which we see some actors that we know little about them who play Amundsen and his family and the women he loved, plus some politicians and members of these societies that lavished and paid the explorer in those ages. This is the really boring part: everything looks lifeless and inert, not only because the actors mix solemnity and speaking lowly. The temperature of these dramatic scenes, the joke is mandatory, scratches the polar one.
El Periódico
In favor of the director Espen Sandberg, it has to be said that he doesn't look away from the dark side of his main character. Against him, his decision of trying to cover so many episodes and aspects of Amundsen's life doesn't allow him to go deeper into any of them and give them some dramatic intensity.
Cinemanía
Amundsen gets comfortable in an almost literary package that only gets interesting when falls into the psycological features of its main character -in his relationship with his wife and brother- and also into his obsession to become the first person who reaches lands that have never been walked in before, that seem from another planet, although there are some risks.