Imagine a heavy metal album cover come suddenly to life and you pretty much have the measure of Pathfinder.
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09/22/07
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.
Theatrical Release:20-04-2007
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
Reviews for Pathfinder
Top CriticNever has an idea of such splendid nuttiness been so squandered to the god of neurotic style.
09/22/07
Top CriticMetal heads will be in Valhalla; everyone else should find a different path.
09/22/07
Top CriticGory but disappointing.
09/22/07
Like Beastmaster or Conan but without the wit or inspiration.
04/27/07
It's a tedious experience in almost every way: The acting is numbingly one-note, the CGI work is unconvincing and often downright shoddy, and the action is poorly staged and framed so close you can never tell for sure who is lopping off whose head.
04/12/07
The 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
Here's hoping Pathfinder II is a straight-to-video- game release.
04/13/07
It's not our idea of a good time, but we'll bet that plenty of adolescent boys will be doing their best to look 18 years old this weekend.
04/13/07
at times hallucinatory but ultimately, utterly forgettable.
04/15/07
What killed this film in the theater was the lack of plot.
09/09/07
Once the actual fighting begins, the film turns dull and lifeless. From beginning to end, the film plods when it should pulse.
04/16/07
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.
04/18/07
Loud and overbusy but never exciting, Pathfinder is an action film only insofar as airborne prop heads and severed appendages equal action.
04/12/07
All grunting, all goring, the witless action flick Pathfinder has little to recommend it.
04/13/07
Top CriticThis 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.
04/13/07
Top CriticBlood flows freely here, but the movie never creates a keen sense of involvement or mystery. Even a major cliffhanging (literally) set piece winds up blurred by the addition of a blinding snowstorm.
04/13/07
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
After the first 1,000 or so beheadings, impalements and severed limbs, Pathfinder's slash may just induce sleep.
04/13/07
Cool concept and stylish visuals aside, Pathfinder isn't strong enough to offer the type of prolonged escapism one might expect from a movie that pits Vikings against Indians.
04/13/07
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