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Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen


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Viggo Mortensen - news / articles


  • Mortensen: 'Movie kid will blow your minds' - 9 September 2009
    -Lord Of The Rings star Viggo Mortensen has heaped praise on his The Road co-star, insisting the 11 year old was his best acting partner ever.- -Young Aussie Kodi Smit-McPhee plays the actor's son in the harrowing adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's bestseller and Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen - what members say


  • A Perfect Murder
  • A Perfect Murder review by A customer from Glasgow, Scotland
    Rated - 3 stars Exciting all the way to the end 15 February 2005
    ...I rented this film to see Viggo Mortensen and was rather surprised how much I enjoyed it. Michael Douglas does his usual creepy slimeball turn to great effect and Gynneth Pal...  
  • Witness
  • Witness review by from Harrow, UK
    Rated - 4 stars Looks dated...but holds up well 31 January 2006
    ...cting against his normal casting as the likeable second fiddle and a very young Viggo Mortensen - who looks about 15 - as a very minor, but beautiful, extra. I enjoyed this...  
  • Lord Of The Rings, The: The Fellowship Of The Ring
  • Rated - 5 stars The most precious movie(s) ever made - Overwhelmingly Special. 17 April 2005
    ...uron. Amongst the Fellowship who help him along the way are: Aragorn (played by Viggo Mortensen,) Legolas the Elf Prince(played by Orlando Bloom,) and Gandalf the wizard, (pla...  

Viggo Mortensen - filmography


  • Good on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Jason Isaacs,  Jodie Whittaker
    Director: Vicente Amorim
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    John Halder is a 'good' and decent individual. A German literature professor in the 1930s, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,232 member
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  • Appaloosa on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Renee Zellweger,  Ed Harris
    Director: Ed Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When two gunmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, arrive in Appaloosa they find a small, dusty and lawless town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg. Bragg has not only taken supplies, horses and women for his own, but also has left the city marshal and a deputy for dead. In Bragg ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 11,853 members
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  • Hidalgo - BLU-RAY Version (2004)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Zuleikha Robinson,  Omar Sharif
    Director: Joe Johnston
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A breathtakingly photographed, epic western like none produced for decades, HIDALGO recounts the life of legend Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen). Set in the 1800s, this family film chronicles the triumphant victory won by Frank and his mustang Hidalgo in the Ocean of Fire, an often-fatal ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 213 members
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  • 28 Days on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Sandra Bullock,  Dominic West,  Viggo Mortensen
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This is the story of a successful New York writer, Gwen Cummings, and her struggle with alcohol abuse. After one particular drunken outburst at her sisters wedding, she is arrested for drunk driving and sent to spend 28 days in rehabilitation. Gwen refuses to conform to the rules, but with time and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,103 members
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  • Psycho on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Vince Vaughn,  Julianne Moore,  Viggo Mortensen
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Marion Crane is a Phoenix, Arizona working girl fed up with having to sneak away during lunch breaks to meet her lover, Sam Loomis, who cannot get married because most of his money goes towards alimony. One Friday, Marion's employer asks her to take $400,000 in cash to a local bank for deposit. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,294 member
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  • Passion of Darkly Noon (1996)
    Starring: Brendan Fraser,  Ashley Judd,  Viggo Mortensen
    Director: Philip Ridley
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After the death of his strictly religious parents, forlorn young Darkly gets lost in the woods. A truck driver, Jude, rescues the exhausted man, who has only a bible for comfort. He brings him to the house of Callie and Clay, two lovers who live in the forest. While Clay is away in the forest, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 59 members
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  • G.I. Jane on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Demi Moore,  Viggo Mortensen,  Anne Bancroft
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Demi Moore stars as Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil, the first female candidate for the U.S. Navy SEAL unit, a clandestine strike force drawn from the creme de la creme of the combined services--an opportunity provided her by the political maneuvering of Senator Lillian de Haven (Anne Bancroft). To make ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 5,626 members
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  • Ruby Cairo (1993)
    Starring: Andie MacDowell,  Liam Neeson,  Viggo Mortensen
    Director: Graeme Clifford
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When Bessie Faro's husband Johnny dies in a plane crash in Veracruz, Mexico, she finds that his air cargo business is deeply in the red. When she visits the airline's terminal in Veracruz, she discovers her husband was pumping large amounts of money into bank accounts all over the world.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 15 members
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  • The Reflecting Skin (1990)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Lindsay Duncan,  Jeremy Cooper
    Director: Philip Ridley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. But far more ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 33 members
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  • Prison on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Lane Smith,  Viggo Mortensen,  Kane Hodder
    Director: Renny Harlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Creedmore Prison was closed in 1956 after complaints of brutality, and one man, Charles Forsyth, was sent to the electric chair for murder. Thirty years later Creedmore is in use again, and the new inmates realise that the place has not stood empty.....something evil stalks within.....
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 107 members
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  • Witness on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Kelly McGillis,  Danny Glover
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    After an Amish boy witnesses police corruption in a Philadelphia train station, a hardened cop takes him and his widowed mother back to their quiet Amish community. There, hiding from his crooked superiors, he is witness to a simpler and seductively innocent world. Academy Award Nominations: 8, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 7,152 members
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  • The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Box Set
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Sean Astin,  Ian Holm
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring: In a time before history, in a place called Middle-earth, a dark and powerful lord has brought together the forces of evil to destroy its cultures and enslave all life caught in his path. Sauron's time has come and he needs only one small object - ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 92% from 97 members
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Viggo Mortensen - watch online


  • Good to Watch Now (2009)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Jason Isaacs,  Jodie Whittaker
    Director: Vicente Amorim
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £3.49
    Run time: 95 minutes
    John Halder is a 'good' and decent individual. A German literature professor in the 1930s, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 2 members
    Watch now (£3.49)

Viggo Mortensen facts

5 most recent films

Good - 3.0 stars
The Road - 4.0 stars
Appaloosa - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Appaloosa - 3.0 stars
Eastern Promises - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Box Set - 4.5 stars
The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring - Extended Version - 4.5 stars
The Lord Of The Rings - The Return of The King - Extended Version - 4.5 stars
The Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers - Extended Version - 4.5 stars
The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Ruby Cairo - 2.0 stars
The Reflecting Skin - 3.0 stars
Alatriste - 3.5 stars
The Road - 4.0 stars
Cinema Collection - Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sean Astin - 7 times - show films
Ian McKellen - 7 times - show films
Billy Boyd - 7 times - show films
Elijah Wood - 7 times - show films
Liv Tyler - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Jackson - 7 times - show films
David Cronenberg - 4 times - show films
Vicente Amorim - 2 times - show films
Joe Johnston - 2 times - show films
Philip Ridley - 2 times - show films


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