"Pilgrimage" by Brendan Muldowney (2017)

Small-budget historical movie that uneasily totters between action and philosophy - the trailer was misleading, because it promised lots of sword fights and hacked limbs but in fact it wasn't about this at all: it was also one of those movies where you sit patiently, waiting for something really important to happen, just to realise it's almost finale and that's all there is to it. 

Main star attraction here is "Walking dead" star Jon Bernthal who probably brought audience here - I understand the reasons why he thought this might be better than average action fluff US cinematography usually offers, but the results are somewhat underwhelming, despite Bernthal's best efforts. You see, Bernthal character is a mysterious, mute stranger who found solace and refuge amongst medieval Irish monks and is now given task to follow them trough dangerous & treacherous terrains, where they must to travel with some highly important religious relic to deliver it to Rome. Nowadays, transport of anything like this would take just a few hours but in medieval world this was a journey that takes months and of course all sorts of enemies lurked everywhere. Monks themselves are quite gullible and inexperienced (youngest of them is novice Tom Holland who has never been anywhere outside of monastery) so they are easy prey, but the enemy turns out not to be who we expect. Bernthal has several highly effective fight scenes - he is kind of gladiator and unfortunately movie just hints that his character has some mysterious past but never explores it - while there is also a very strong part played by Stanley Weber who represents evil power of manipulation and zealotry. The reason I didn't find this satisfactory was that movie actually promises much more - it could have been completely different story, with deep message about faith, redemption and greed but it goes too often for sword fights so its neither here or there. Somebody like Ingmar Bergman would approach it from different perspective and completely avoid bombastic music and fights.