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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
I didn't think it was possible to make a movie involving Vikings worse than 1978's The Norsemen starring Lee Majors, but director Marcus Nispel and company have accomplished just that with this formulaic piece of poorly made PC trash.
Like Beastmaster or Conan but without the wit or inspiration.
Whatever significance the legend had gets lost amid the repellent butchery.
... little more than an excuse to present a bunch of slice and dice battle scenes filmed with murky cinematography and a notable absence of emotional resonance.
It's all a mess, but the scenery is nice.
Even an epic film with the best of intentions can be badly directed. And here's a fine example."Pathfinder," with its silly melodrama of a script, is proof of this.
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.
[A] compelling example of purely cinematic storytelling that eschews almost all dialogue and lets moody colors and visceral action tell a tale that is mythic and metaphoric...
Once the actual fighting begins, the film turns dull and lifeless. From beginning to end, the film plods when it should pulse.
A chaotic piece of storytelling, told with the dull flash of quick-cut editing, ugly cinematography, and clichés that apparently pre-date Columbus' journey to the New World.
Celebrates a sense of identity and community more importantly defined by a shared set of convictions, than blood ties or DNA.
at times hallucinatory but ultimately, utterly forgettable.
When placed inside a film featuring Vikings that look more like members of GWAR and Karl Urban trying to act butch enough to cover the fact that he's running around in a dishrag and Uggs, any opportunity to stop the film to chat is a bad idea.
Another graphic novel-y movie that presents its maniacal machismo on a smaller scale than 300 but makes up for it by being even loonier.
A one-note slog through some painfully familiar territory.
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.
Top CriticUndone by a murky palette, silly horror-movie cliches, dumb dialogue and a confusing climactic sequence.
As dim and dank as a power failure in a peepshow, Pathfinder is Apocalypto without the laughs or 300 without the muscular visuals and elevating dialogue.
The official Pathfinder Web site is far more interesting than the movie itself, and you'll get better history lessons from the Vikings of Minnesota.
No more than a minute into this, and it becomes obvious that the next 98 are going to be trouble.
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