Pathfinder (Unrated Edition)

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Actor(s):

Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Jay Tavare

Director(s):

Marcus Nispel

Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Publisher(s):

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Manufacturer: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Binding: DVD
MPN: FOXD2245032D
Format(s): AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Rating: Unrated
List Price: $14.98
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Editorial Reviews

Description

The heroic story of a young Norse man raised by Native American Indians who wages a personal war against the Vikings that barbarically raided his tribe.

Amazon.com

Pathfinder is a curious, cross-genre movie with elements of horror, sword-clanging fantasy, historical fiction, and Native American mysticism. A classic story of an outsider-hero, Pathfinder is set approximately five centuries before Columbus? arrival in the New World, a time when Vikings were claiming real estate in Greenland and eastern North America. A young Norse boy is abandoned by his disapproving, conqueror-father and adopted by an aboriginal tribe. He grows up to become Ghost (Karl Urban), almost-but-not-entirely accepted by natives, yet a fierce swordsman and defender of Indians after a terrible assault on those whom he loves best. Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption) plays the fiercest of the invaders, a merciless leader who tangles with Ghost?s inherent prowess as a fighter, and engages in a psychological as well as physical struggle with him in the film?s final third, which involves a harrowing journey through an avalanche-prone mountain path. Russell Means (The Last of the Mohicans) is a typically comforting presence as the all-wise Pathfinder, leader of a tribal nation and Ghost?s supporter, while Moon Bloodgood (Eight Below) is outstanding as a love interest with nerves of steel. Marcus Nispel (who directed the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) guides the brutal if often exhilarating action as if it were amplified history. He makes the point for a contemporary audience that Vikings were as terrifying a danger to those whom they conquered as, say, Klingons are in Star Trek--precisely by making his Vikings seem so reminiscent of Klingons. --Tom Keogh

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Customer Reviews

Great Film

If you like adventure and some homespun philosophy thrown in, this film is for you. Enjoyed it very much.

Life and death

Vikings and Indians. Living Indians dead Vikings, and that's before the carnage...A great movie except for the garbage. Well acted, realistic, except for the cartoons...of course the vikings on raids were bloodthirsty murderous thugs, but they did not, by and large, actually step out of cheap video games...do you know, they actually TOOK THEIR HELMETS OFF sometimes? They weren't CREATURES from TOLKIEN, they were human beings who did terrible things...that's your movie, who WERE those guys? How could they do those things? Most of the vikings in this movie were like animate chess pieces with breath, their arms and legs moved, they made sounds, but these were pieces from a game box, not people, and usually not interesting..

At least one reviewer seems to feel this movie was on a par with living history, that we essentially go back in time and see the world as it was, one thousand years ago...kinda hard to tell, ain't it? I mean, what was he doing one thousand years ago, that he would know, you know?

Pathfinder could have and should have been a great movie. It was there in bits and pieces, scattered throughout the billowing reams of fast forward viking style horror/slasher movie total predictability...you know the one where everyone thinks the creature is dead, BUT ITS NOT!...uh, if the movie's makers had actually decided to make ONE MOVIE, and not three or four dissonant fragments, it might have been extraordinary...again, the pieces, the examples, the possibiities were there...the reality missed badly...too bad, there was some good acting and some fine moments...

What a movie it might have been...

Not bad....

This is not a bad movie but it's not a great movie either. I will say that the Vikings depicted here are the scariest, ugliest and most brutal I've ever seen in cinema. Their horses are even scary. I'd recommend it to friends of the genre.

boring violence

this is one of the most violent movies i have ever seen. while it is well done..
the acting isn't bad..the editing etc is ok.. and all the gory, non-stop violence is certainly convincing. i didn't like the depiction of native peoples as, sort of, flower children who needed a white savior to protect and save them . and i didn't enjoy someone being guted, decapated, choped in half, every two minitues for the entire move. not exactly a brilliant plot. i threw the DVD away.

Bad film, but neat to watch...

Really, this movie is not very good. Trust the negative reviews on this one. So why did I rate it three stars? Because this is the closest I've seen to a live action Frazetta painting.

If you have fond memories of those old sword-and-sorcery paperback covers of armored warriors riding out of the mist, you may like the look of this movie quite a bit.

Unfortunately, warriors in the mist, while it makes for an arresting visual, is awfully hard to make out in live action. The fights are gloriously violent and the claret flows like water. But even if you can get past the bad script and plot holes to enjoy the action, you will find it very hard to follow. All that mist and shadow makes for a movie that is muddled, muddy and dark.

For most people, I'd say skip this one. If you are a Frazetta fan, it might be worth a look, but even then, don't hold your breath.

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