Must the 13-year-old boy Hollywood seems most eager to please also be a sadist? First came Apocalypto, then 300, now Pathfinder.
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04/13/07
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
The end of the road almost makes this a path worth taking, but most audience members will probably be too bored by the time the movie finally gets there to really care.
04/13/07
Muddled, ugly, pointless, silly, incoherent, overly familiar and exceedingly dull.
04/13/07
Strives to be a latter-day Conan the Barbarian.
04/13/07
The movie takes us on a journey to an ugly, contentious period in our misty, ancient past -- all the way back to four months ago, when Apocalypto came out.
04/13/07
After the first 1,000 or so beheadings, impalements and severed limbs, Pathfinder's slash may just induce sleep.
04/13/07
Pathfinder sweeps fantasy to a new level: gritty, layered, chill-chasing.
04/13/07
All grunting, all goring, the witless action flick Pathfinder has little to recommend it.
04/13/07
Top CriticIt'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
Director Marcus Nispel, best known for his music video shoots delivers all style and no substance, sacrificing story for a good sword up the ass everytime.
04/13/07
Turns history into the equivalent of a horror movie, one with a less-than-stellar cast and some serious plot holes.
04/13/07
Dialogue is a low priority in this film, which has less plot than most video games.
04/13/07
There's a fan's sincere hokeyness about Pathfinder that makes the experience relatively painless, in spite of the number of people who get tortured, decapitated or dismembered.
04/13/07
Though Pathfinder was completed before 300 and the equally artful and brutal Apocalypto, it can still do nothing but slog along in their footprints.
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
Blood 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
Here's hoping Pathfinder II is a straight-to-video- game release.
04/13/07
In the movie’s attempts to create drama amid the action, as in a downhill sled chase, all energy is sapped, and the audience ends up feeling nothing.
04/13/07
The movie is part Apocalypto (warriors, threat of hostile takeover, violence!) and part 300 (warriors, threat of hostile takeover, violence!), but with the commercial misfortune of being neither.
04/13/07
The plot... can be summed up neatly in four words: Hack! Slash! Grunt! Splat! Make that five: Every once in a while one of the dying Vikings lets out a loud, Homer Simpson-style 'D'oh!' before departing for Valhalla.
04/13/07
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