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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★½

  With Thor Heyerdahl’s theory now debunked, the real reason of the Kon-Tiki expedition was for some Norwegian dudes to get a suntan and a full blonde beard.

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  Review by UltimateMovieRankings ★★★★ 2

  Kon-Tiki is about Thor Heyerdal's true story 5,000-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. This one picked up a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination....and it was well deserved. It reminded me of Robert Redford's All Is Lost..as most of the movie we follow the activities of 6 guys on a raft in the middle of the ocean. That might not sound very exciting.....but many things happen during their 101 days at sea. The fact that it is true only makes the movie even better. Two things I found very interesting. (1) Thor went on this 5,000 mile Pacific Ocean raft trip without one skill....he did not know how to swim! (2) The documentary Thor made of the trip won an Oscar in 1950. Final thought: This one is worth checking out.

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½

  So after the release of the last installment with Johnny Depp as Capt. Sparrow (?), I’ve been curious about the work by the two directors who helmed at that project. While the Disney’s big franchise last installment was a tad bit disappointing, when you get an Oscar nominated movie and such a cool poster, you do still have my attention.

  And the final product is a really good movie that has some lowkey great stakes and some of the weirdest small details that still get a kick out of me, from the fact there are people called Thor out there and apparently there’s such a thing as a Scandinavian Jesse Plemmons. But jokes aside, the performances were pretty good and…

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  Review by Keith ★★★½

  Well-paced, grand adventure tale of true-life derring-do presented with brilliant, saturated colors and vibrant, breathtaking scenery.

  Though apparently the real exploit wasn't quite enough as some moments are needlessly overdramatized and lead to queries such as, "SIRI: Do sharks eat parrots?"

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  Review by Dragonknight ★★★★ 16

  Part of My Top 10 Films of 2012

  Norway’s submission for the foreign language category in the 85th Academy Awards and the eventual nominee is a high quality sea adventure and a movie that underlines the courage and bravery of a group of explorers who risk their lives to extend mankind’s knowledge, and as the story goes ahead it becomes clear that having faith is more important than having high tech equipments, Kon-Tiki is a magical movie about the triumph of the will. Thor Heyerdahl is like a prophet, he believes in his theory, he believes that his goal is achievable and he reminds his men that in the middle of the ocean the only thing that can help them…

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  Review by Wood ★★★ 2

  Some shredded Norwegians sail shirtless on raft through the pacific ocean and get into some hairy situations haha. (beards and sharks).

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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★★½ 2

  The world's oceans were not barriers, but roads.
  -Thor Heyerdahl

  Kon-Tiki is based on the 1947 expedition that was already the subject of the 1951 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature, the 1950 Kon-Tiki. I've never seen the documentary, but it's now become a must watch after seeing the film. The chronicle of Thor Heyerdahl's attempt to go from South America to the Polynesian islands on a raft to prove the islands were in fact populated by South America is just too outstanding to not want to view even more about the expedition especially a documentary that has actual footage of it.

  That's the documentary I didn't watch though, instead the dramatization of the expedition is, without really exaggerating,…

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  Review by russman ★★★ 1

  That moment when an hour into the movie you realize Harvey Weinstein cut 23 minutes in the version you are watching

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  Review by Fred Kolb ★★★★

  I tend to appreciate countries producing films about episodes from their own history that they deem important. More often than not, these events are best conveyed when they come straight from the source, offering a far more personal viewpoint than a watered-down (no pun intended) American take on the same material ever could. “Kon-Tiki”, available on Netflix, is an exciting, mostly upbeat old-school adventure story from Norway that scored a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars for 2012, a welcome reprieve from the weighty fare that typically populates the category. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg put together an ambitious reconstruction of the transpacific voyage of tenacious daredevil Thor Heyerdahl, who moved heaven and earth to prove his…

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  Review by TajLV ★★★½

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  Film #10 of 30 in my March Around The World | 2017 Challenge (Norway)
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  Based upon the Academy Award-winning 1950 documentary about Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl, this historical drama from directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg earned its own Oscar nomination as Norway's entry for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year in 2013. The film stars Pål Sverre Hagen as the intrepid Heyerdahl, and of course the title refers to the simple balsa wood raft upon which Thor and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to the Polynesian Islands in 1947.

  The story opens in snowy Larvik, Norway in 1920, with the reckless young Thor Heyerdahl nearly drowning as he tries to…

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  Review by Robin Solsjö Höglund ★★★½

  My sister saw this in theatres and insisted I watch it with her, so I finally did. It's a Norwegian film about adventurer Thor Heyerdal, who so insisted that Peruvians traveled to Polynesia by rafts that he constructed one himself in the 40's, with no modern tools, and set out to drift across 4,300 miles of the Pacific Ocean, hopefully landing where he intended.

  The first thing that struck me is how beautiful the film is, Scandinavian films tend to be very delicately shot and this is no exception. Perhaps some post-production tinkering has been applied, but overall it simply captures a beautiful and natural elegance and is always lush as a perfect postcard. The acting also feels very grounded…

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  Review by Steven Sheehan ★★ 20

  I smell a rat. I presume they did on the Kon-Tiki too, well probably much worse but that's not what I mean. It only took 15 minutes to get the idea that this movie had one thing and only one thing in mind when it was put together. An Academy Award nomination. Over half of the investment for the film came from The Norwegian Film institute who insisted that an English version of the film was also made at the same time, to of course increase its international exposure.

  And it worked. They got their Foreign Language Oscar nomination this year as well as wide spread acclaim and it is the latter that confuses me more than anything. As barmy…