At its best, this achieves the beauty and grandeur of a Kurosawa epic -- at its worst, however, it feels like a Python remake of The Vikings.
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02/09/06
The 13th Warrior (1999)
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Reviews Counted:87
Fresh:29
Rotten:58
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Atmospheric, great sets and costumes, but thin plot.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Director John McTiernan takes viewers back to 900 A.D. in THE 13th WARRIOR. After courting "an untouchable" Muslim princess, Ahmed (Antonio Banderas) is banished and sent North as an emissary. When... [More]
Reviews for The 13th Warrior
Top CriticAnnoying and dull.
01/01/00
"The 13th Warrior" is a brazen attempt to brand Antonio Banderas as an A-lister with a C-grade script. Failure attends.
11/28/09
Jerry Goldsmith's rousing score exhibits more personality than any of the actors--or anything else in the film, for that matter.
11/24/09
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01/07/09
Michael Crichton's story is underdeveloped and narrow in range, resulting in a tale more curious for its odd confluence of elements than for their edifying deployment.
06/17/08
Top CriticMr. Crichton may have found the perfect venue for his particular brand of character underdevelopment.
07/14/07
Shelved for over a year and probably heavily edited, it's better than it could have been.
05/26/06
If you're in the mood to watch heads, arms and other appendages getting chopped off, this movie is for you.
12/06/05
The film is fascinating to watch, but I can hardly say what it's about, other than people killing each other.
07/21/05
It harks back to the late 1950s when people actually made movies about Vikings and other seafaring heroes named Sinbad and Jason.
05/30/03
An entertaining and serviceable adaptation. Dennis Storhoi delivers an awesome performance. Weak aspects of story made up for by great action.
03/23/03
Although the subject matter is not too pleasant and the gore is turned up to 11, Crichton's film is an excellent Nordic war story.
02/08/03
The film is based on Eaters of the Dead, possibly the worst novel Michael Crichton has ever written, and this film isn't even a passable adaptation.
11/30/02
For fans of the genre, it's an inexorably primal exercise almost like cinematic steroids: qualitatively lacking, if not harmful, yet superficially irresistible.
06/05/02
A sensação que fica, ao final da projeção, é a de que vimos um filme vazio - e sobre o personagem errado. E o que é pior: no qual nada acontece.
05/31/02
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03/24/02
A big cathartic blast.
03/22/02
The screenplay effectively communicates the cross-cultural tensions between the Arabs, the Vikings, and the pagan Wendols.
03/05/02
No review available.
01/27/02
Latest News for The 13th Warrior
November 05, 2008:
Michael Crichton Passes Away (1942-2008)
Best-selling author, screenwriter, and director Michael Crichton has passed away at the age of 66. The medical doctor-turned-filmmaker was best known for writing... More...
July 26, 2006:
Viking Epic Gets Banished to January
Marcus Nispel's "Pathfinder" was just bumped back from September 8th to January 12th, the move most likely prompted by the waves of muffled giggles that greeted the... More...
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