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Store: Amazon.co.uk - see offers at all stores | SummaryPathfinder 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 the arrival of Columbus 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 |
| Great visuals, lacklustre story. | | From a visual point of view Pathfinder is stunning to look at, the computer rendered backdrops give a real epic feel to the film. Sadly the storyline isn't as good. It's a paper thin plot of a native Americans taking in a Viking boy found as the sole survivor on a shipwreck, now as an adult he finds himself defending the native population against his own people. The films saving grace at the start is the high level of violence and gore though this sadly tails off quickly and what you're left with is a rather hollow action movie. | Written on 19 July 2010 |   |
| Uncompromisingly Violent | Pathfinder seems familiar in a lot of ways - even if you have never seen the film before. Avatar, for one, has recently covered some of the plot developments. It is very well made - with a great deal of effort made to make it feel authentic (cast speaking Icelandic & etc) & it is uncompromisingly violent (lots of CGI blood - a bit like Zatoichi).
See this if you enjoyed Apocalypto, the 13th Warrior, A Man Called Horse or Flesh and Blood. Avoid if you are looking for a gentle rural story of discovery. | Written on 22 March 2010 | |
| old world fantasy | one of those films that does have a great depth, and there wasn't much time spent on the script but nonetheless it works.
well filmed with plenty of action. a great saturday night viewing. | Written on 14 January 2010 | |
| Hurg! | | Vikings cross the Atlantic and kill everybody they find. They just do. They huff and puff with the humourless gravity of cosplay Klingons who watched "Conan The Barbarian" on the flight to the convention. This is the kind of movie where the little girl wanders off from the village and the barking of her dog alerts us to the fact that the baddies are in the woods nearby; the kind of movie in which the arrival of a choir on the soundtrack signals that a massacre is about to begin. It's all painted with the broad strokes of heavy metal album covers and characterisation is on the same level. Technically, things are brought off to a fairly high standard but it's all so painfully second-guessed and familiar that the overall effect is wearing. Unless you're planning to get a tattoo of a winged skull across your man-boobs, in which case you'll probably find that this is the greatest movie ever, ever, ever. | Written on 21 August 2009 | |
| Pathfinder on track | | The other-world Vikings give this story the aspect of an alien invasion. The hero is also a viking but brought up by the cosy, homespun, Native Americans. Of course he is the only one who can save his tribe. The simplistic plotline is not a negative as it gives us the opportunity to focus on the lavish visuals. Recommended. | Written on 27 June 2009 | |
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