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westcoastwillam

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I loved this move i have no idea why people are bagging on this movie so much ,it is rite up there with 300 as a great adaptation and was so cool to wacth the fighting was brutal the story kept you intrested the acting was not bad at all so i...
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I loved this move i have no idea why people are bagging on this movie so much ,it is rite up there with 300 as a great adaptation and was so cool to wacth the fighting was brutal the story kept you intrested the acting was not bad at all so i don't know why this film gets bad reviwes cause it's really pretty good at least worth the rent but i would have seen it in theatres.

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Posted feb 16, 2008 5:36 am pt

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Really wanted to cower at this celluloid spectacle's physical presence. The elements were present: marauding, pillaging Vikings displaying brutal, forceful dominance; an indigenous Tribe of Native Americans adoption of one 'forgotten Viking son'...
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Really wanted to cower at this celluloid spectacle's physical presence. The elements were present: marauding, pillaging Vikings displaying brutal, forceful dominance; an indigenous Tribe of Native Americans adoption of one 'forgotten Viking son' as their own; the lone, hybrid Warrior; a battle for existence in the balance. Yet, it disappoints. A combination of 'The 13th Warrior', 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'The New World' at best. Karl Urban (Kirill in 'The Bourne Supremacy') plays the brooding Ghost, the adopted Viking. Russell Means **** in 'The Last of the Mohicans') the Tribal Pathfinder and Clancy Brown (no explanation required) the dastardly head Viking Gunnar. Throw in sexy gal Starfire (Moon Bloodgood, that's the female actors name - honest) and a Director (Marcus Nispel) who cut his teeth doing Pop Promos for the likes of Billy Joel, Janet Jackson and George Michael. Don't judge, everyone starts somewhere. The direction and lavish visuals are excellent - a treat. But not enough to prevent numb-bum syndrome. At times the line between 'Pathfinder' and 'The Last of the Mohicans' blurs, certain Daniel Day-Lewis was poking around in the woods. Action sequences are good, but nothing especially new or invigorating. Someone can only be chopped up by sword in so many ways. All that said, go see it or rent it. Can't hurt. If it does, it'll only be your bum.

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Posted oct 9, 2007 1:58 am pt

Lokar

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My. Oh my. I don't think this movie was based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper. At least, I hope not. He's already dead, there's no need to try and hurt the man again.

This movie has some of the worst dialogue I have ever...
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My. Oh my. I don't think this movie was based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper. At least, I hope not. He's already dead, there's no need to try and hurt the man again.

This movie has some of the worst dialogue I have ever heard. And when I say worst, I mean that sometimes people don't say anything for 20 minutes; then they yell maybe five words; and the Native Americans say things so cliched, I'm surprised nobody sued. "The boy has destiny with the people. He stays!" one of the elders says when the lost Viking boy is adopted. What? Native culture has been around for tens of thousands of years, and the writers can't give him anything better to say than that?

Some of the battle scenes were okay. You don't get much swordfighting these days. However, the entire movie seems to have been shot with the lens caps still on the cameras. Suffice it to say that I put my copy up for sale on eBay about 20 minutes into having watched the film for the first time.

Yuck.

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Posted sep 1, 2007 9:12 pm pt

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Well made. Not much of a plot. Not bad if u like pure violence.

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Posted aug 21, 2007 11:35 am pt

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When I rented this movie, I was expecting a 'Beowulf' clone. The plot surprised me. Because there was none.
There was no character development either. I felt no compassion for any of the 'good guys' and I felt like the original Pathfinder...
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When I rented this movie, I was expecting a 'Beowulf' clone. The plot surprised me. Because there was none.
There was no character development either. I felt no compassion for any of the 'good guys' and I felt like the original Pathfinder (old Native American guy) actually deserved it when he did get gacked.
The most unbelievable was the main character. He practiced alone with the sword for years and somehow got to be better than any of the actual vikings? This girl fell in love with him?
naw, don't bother.

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Posted aug 16, 2007 11:22 pm pt

John666666666

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A really bad movie, not worth seeing. Don't get me started on the historical facts they made up. The acting was bad, the action was terrible. Everything about it was terrible.

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Posted aug 15, 2007 1:55 am pt

• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  70
  Nicely balances action and adventure with American Indian wisdom and a modest romance to provide a graphic-comic-book movie experience for males in urban markets.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  Urban and Bloodgood make the most of their parts, locking eyes and arms, and occasionally using American English as if the snowy 10th century were another way of saying, "Where the après ski?"

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  50
  It's undone by a murky palette, silly horror-movie cliches, dumb dialogue and a confusing climactic sequence.

  by Ken Fox | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  50
  Pathfinder is aimed more at the action-figure crowd than the history buffs.

  by Liam Lacey | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  50
  After the first 1,000 or so beheadings, impalements and severed limbs, Pathfinder's slash may just induce sleep.

  by Robert Dominguez | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  50
  A bizarre, bloody adventure movie.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  42
  If this uninspired fight-fest had been delayed out of existence, it's unlikely anyone would have missed it.

  by Tasha Robinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  42
  Pathfinder's moody, muddy look is courtesy of music-video director Marcus Nispel, who doesn't distinguish between people and tree trunks when it comes to emotional content.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  40
  Mainly it's messy, and I don't just mean the gouged-out eyeball in a puddle.

  by Marrit Ingman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  40
  Like "300" and "Apocalypto," this latest bit of historical balder-dash stands in direct defiance of proven action-movie formulas, trusting its brutal concept and striking visuals to overcome a lack of star power.

  by Peter Debruge | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  40
  For crying out loud, Marcus -- all you had to do was have Vikings fight Indians! How hard was that?

  by Ian Nathan | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  38
  All cinematic creativity seems to have focused on devising the most repellent ways to maim and murder.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  30
  One of the funniest films of the year. That's not good news for this attempted action-adventure, which clearly lost its way in its own copious fog.

  by Michael Ordona | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  30
  There is one redeeming skirmish -- the climactic fight involving a snowy cliff and an elaborate pulley system -- but from the guy who's directed videos for Cher, Amy Grant, Billy Joel, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony? We expected more.

  by Jessica Grose | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  30
  The fault here lies in the film's dead rhythm, which never lights the sparks necessary for an action film. The plot and action progress like an eroding lakeshore, but the energy and excitement are washed away in every scene.

  by Matthew Sorrento | Read Full Review »