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01/15/08
Pathfinder (2007)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:8
Rotten:65
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: A few rousing action sequences can't make up for Pathfinder's non-existent plot and silly dialogue.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $10,232,081
Synopsis: Wearing its R rating for violence like a badge of honor, PATHFINDER bears more resemblance to a horror film than most of its historical action-film brethren. Director Marcus Nispel cut his teeth on... [More]
Starring: Karl Urban, Jay Tavare, Nathaniel Arcand, Moon Bloodgood
Director: Marcus Nispel
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11/20/08
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.
06/21/08
Without anything more to offer, the choreographed carnage gets stale very quickly.
09/22/07
Pathfinder’s main appeal will be to connoisseurs of gore, who will find no shortage of graphically rendered stabbings, shootings, smashings, severings and slicings.
09/22/07
Imagine a heavy metal album cover come suddenly to life and you pretty much have the measure of Pathfinder.
09/22/07
Top CriticThe plot and action progress like an eroding lakeshore, but the energy and excitement are washed away in every scene.
09/22/07
Never has an idea of such splendid nuttiness been so squandered to the god of neurotic style.
09/22/07
Top CriticThe movie is filmed in a way that makes it seem like the camera has epilepsy and the color desaturation renders everything murky. Someone should remind director Marcus Nispel that there's a difference between making a music video and a feature film.
09/22/07
Metal heads will be in Valhalla; everyone else should find a different path.
09/22/07
Pathfinder is simultaneously action-packed and a total bore, a strange movie that never seems to move even though it consists of almost nothing but violence.
09/22/07
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think slow-motion is cool and those who do not. If you are of the former, I can recommend Pathfinder.
09/22/07
Gory but disappointing.
09/22/07
All basic interest, to say nothing of excitement, is sapped whenever the big, brutal battle sequences come to a halt and inane dialogue takes over.
09/12/07
What killed this film in the theater was the lack of plot.
09/09/07
It's a movie that belies its title, showing neither a strong sense of direction nor the drive to do anything other than display a whole lot of slashing and stabbing.
07/22/07
For all its flaws, Pathfinder is a unique little action film.
06/25/07
Boasting a prettified brutality that rivals that of 300, Pathfinder also explores a similar theme, the manly pursuit of revenge at any cost.
05/30/07
I was so irritated that I paid money to see this that I snuck into two movies afterward to feel better about my investment. Boooooooooring.
05/06/07
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