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Movie Overview
Cast
• Antonio Banderas
• Diane Venora
• Omar Sharif
Director
• John McTiernan
MPAA Rating
R
The 13th Warrior (1999)

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OFCS Rating: 35% Rotten
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2/4
"everything is first rate except the characters and the story"  NutzWorld  Blake French

C+
"The actors keep the film from becoming too stupid"  AboutFilm.com  Carlo Cavagna

2.5/5
"The 13th Warrior is simply without thrills and excitement."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

D+
""The 13th Warrior" is a brazen attempt to brand Antonio Banderas as an A-lister with a C-grade script. Failure attends."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

"Much blood. Much mud. Not enough camp."  Philadelphia City Paper  Cynthia Fuchs

1.5/4
". Seeing "The 13th Warrior" is like wishing for light at the end of a long dark tunnel, when we both know nothing is really there."  Cinemaphile.org  David Keyes

0/4
"Stupefyingly horrendous."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

3/5
"Here was a film with a scope far beyond the reaches of a mediocre director like Crichton."  eFilmCritic.com  Erik Childress

2.5/4
"Michael Crichton is quite a character; his films could use a little."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

" The screenplay effectively communicates the cross-cultural tensions between the Arabs, the Vikings, and the pagan Wendols."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

3/4
"An exhilarating 100 minutes!"  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

"The film feels as if it had a bad run through the editing room."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

2/4
"Mr. Crichton may have found the perfect venue for his particular brand of character underdevelopment."  Big Picture Big Sound  Joe Lozito

3/4
"Los que busquen profundidad en la historia se van a sentir algo decepcionados"  Moviola  Jorge Avila Andrade

1/5
"Stay home and watch the WWF. The only difference is; they don't fight with swords"  3BlackChicks Review  Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

6/10
"Murky, all - but - impossible to follow battle sequences."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

2.5/4
"Never really wowed me while I was watching it, but I grew more impressed with it afterwards."  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

9/10
"The best, most enthralling adventure movie I've seen in a good while."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

1.5/4
"Jerry Goldsmith's rousing score exhibits more personality than any of the actors--or anything else in the film, for that matter."  TheMovieReport.com  Michael Dequina

3/5
"Rarely rises above the level of a "hack and slash" gorefest."  Mike Bracken's Horror Films  Mike Bracken

3/5
"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."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

C
"The movie itself is unfulfilling. It just hangs there, like the aftertaste of stale beer."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

"Director John McTiernan did this long before The Hunt for Red October and he would be wise to leave it off his resume."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Susan Granger
OFCS Rating: 35% Rotten
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