Alatriste

Aroview: Viggo Mortensen plays a Spanish noble warrior in this epic adaptation of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's best-selling books.

Lavished with the most expensive budget of any Spanish production to date, the film broadly canvases 17th Century European history, trading generously in political intrigue, lush period recreation, and swashbuckling action. Mortensen, in a role requiring the fluent command of Spanish, holds his own.