Kon-Tiki (Blu-ray + DVD)

Outstanding action film based on history!

School assignment. The movie is a good guide line doesn’t include all the details from book but great highlights. True story!

I recently saw this movie at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The start of the movie was delayed in lieu of the HUGE crowd of people waiting in line to buy a ticket in the hot sun. They had three showings, and when I went on Sunday it was the last showing. When the movie started there were only a handful of empty seats, which is very rare for the OMOA. I have seen many docudrama's on TV about events at the turn of the 19th century. The entire set, cars, planes, and clothing date back to that age. That also applies to this movie. One thing I loved about this movie is they also told the story leading up to the launch of Kon Tiki. The film made it very clear that the entire crew knew this was a very dangerous voyage. Yet knowing that everyone of the crew had no doubt about going on the voyage. That is the entire scientific community predicted it was a suicide mission. Everyone on the Kon Tiki was assigned to a task, navigator, radio operator, engineer, photographer, etc. The real story is about mother earth and what she had in store for the crew of the Kon Tiki. There was not one dull moment in this movie. The epic fights among the crew. The scenes of joy, laughter, and extreme danger. The main theme is about several guys that had nothing in common, and as the voyage progresses they banded together as mates. IMDB advised that there are four scenes that did not actually take place on the 1947 voyage, and that the movie is not historically accurate. They say this was done to beef up to movie, and make it more melodramatic. I will have to agree with Hollywood this time. Those four scenes did not change the outcome of the voyage in anyway, and only made it more entertaining. Another note is that this docudrama was so....good when it played at the Oklahoma Museum of Art that at the end of the movie everyone in the theatre stood up and applauded. And YES I did purchase the Blu-Ray DVD from Amazon.

So a handful of descendants of the Vikings build a balsa raft in 1950 Peru and sail it to Tahiti to prove that Polynesia was settled not from the West, by Asians (paddling against the current), but from the East, by Peruvians, or someone along the line of the Inca's. Having just survived the first class disaster and life altering epic that was WW2 they have rather improved priorities over the average person in the audience today and they all work together so not a lot happens.In short, what a boring picture from the standpoint of the writer and director. Not even a single near-naked woman to parade about, just lots of white guys with no body hair who still manage full heads of blonde hair and beards to die for. So, they swap out the athletic "Black Norwegian" who didn't have blonde hair and made him a panic stricken tubby---the only guy on the boat who isn't tall and thin and gorgeous, but of course! If Nazis had come out of the sharks belly you could bet they would all be bald. Such is Hollywood, even when it's a Norwegian film.Ah well. It's a fairly fast paced film, there are sharks and amazing glowing creatures at night, and eventually they end up in Thailand, well beyond Polynesia, but, well, you know, Hollywood and all that. And lots of near naked descendants of Vikings to look at.Hey, after all these years, decades, it made me want to read the Heyerdahl book on which it's based. And Amazon is streaming the original documentary on which this is based, too!

I'm casually familiar with the Kon Tiki story, and have not read the book. I had seen something on TV about his movie while traveling and it piqued my interest. I finally purchased and watched the blu-ray version this week.Because I haven't read the book, I can't say if the movie followed the true story or not. I can say that I enjoyed the pace of the movie and appreciated how it sounded on my home theater with a recently upgraded subwoofer. The english version is short, about an hour and a half, but is a good adventure story.My 10 year-old daughter watched the entire movie with me (though we fast-forwarded through a bloody scene at the 1 hour mark). Because we got a late start and her bedtime came to soon after we began, we watched in two sittings -- the first 30 minutes (when financing and crew were being secured) followed by the rest. I was surprised that she came back since the first half hour was mainly dialogue; but, I had told her the basic plot so I think that helped keep her interest. After it was over she said that she really liked it.My 6 1/2 year-old son did't stick around too long during the first 30 minutes (dialogue); but, he did sit still for the entire second sitting. The fact that he sat still says a lot and I was quite surprised.Over all, a great adventure story and good family movie. I recommend skipping a few minutes at the 1-hour mark (english version) if younger children are watching. There is also *some* mild profanity but nothing too concerning.

Awesome movie... The visual effects are incredible!!! I actually felt like I was right there on the raft with them... Even though I already knew what was going to happen in the end (it's based on a true story), this film had me on the very edge of my seat the entire way!I enjoyed that we get to know all of the characters a bit, as they are stuck on a raft together. Facing survival at all costs, with only each other, a bird, and mother nature. As they chase one man's dream across the ocean, they learn lessons of humility, trust, growth, strength and the very best of human ingenuity.If you are looking for a historically accurate, action-adventure story that is jam packed with stunning visual details and sprinkled with a bit of drama along the way, then this movie is for you; at any age! For me, it was worth paying the rental price!

Good movie 🎥👍

Sadly this wonderful film was not widely distributed and it definitely needs the Big Screen experience to be fully appreciated so if you have a whopping great TV in your home or a good local film club you will find this beautifully filmed movie of the fascinating tale of the Kon Tiki expedition a visual feast. Anyone interested in Kon-Tiki should try to get hold of a 2nd hand edition of KON TIKI & I, written with great humour and wonderfully illustrated by the lesser-known Erik Hesselberg, a member of the expedition, whom you can see doodling in the film. I recommend reading this first and then seeing the film where you will have the added pleasure of relating Hesselberwg's drawings to scenes in the film.

Eloquently put into context the story of Heyadahl and the Kon-tiki which made my subsequent visit to Oslo and the Kon-tiki museum so much more enjoyable. As far as I could work out the film is very near to the truth which is always welcome and was well made which breathed life into the story.

Read the book, seen Thor Hayerdahl's documentary film, long time ago ... so it was interesting film.

Unfortunately, I have founded very slow and low motivation to keep watching this movie. However, other person may find it different as we all have different taste. Not as interesting as I thought.

This film was Oscar nominated 2012 so expectations were high, I was genuinely impressed, stunning photography and acting,the film was shot simultaneously in Norwegian and English, this disc from Germany has the English version plus dubbed German.I would imagine this film would be stunning on the big screen but as yet no release in Britain is forecast, so Bluray or dvd is your sole means of viewing this superb film about a voyage not so well known today.