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Movie Overview
Cast
• Karl Urban
• Jay Tavare
• Nathaniel Arcand
Director
• Marcus Nispel
MPAA Rating
R - for strong brutal violence throughout
Pathfinder (2007)

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OFCS Rating: 13% Rotten
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"When placed inside a film featuring Vikings that look more like members of GWAR and Karl Urban trying to act butch enough to cover the fact that he's running around in a dishrag and Uggs, any opportunity to stop the film to chat is a bad idea."  OhmyNews.com  Brian Orndorf

"Boasting a prettified brutality that rivals that of 300, Pathfinder also explores a similar theme, the manly pursuit of revenge at any cost."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

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"Pure cheesy spectacle, as bad as anything you'd find on 'Mystery Science Theater 3000,' and with plenty of absurd dialogue for the hecklers to ridicule."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

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"Another graphic novel-y movie that presents its maniacal machismo on a smaller scale than 300 but makes up for it by being even loonier."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1.5/4
"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."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

1.5/5
"Without anything more to offer, the choreographed carnage gets stale very quickly."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

3/10
"Click here to read review"  Kinoblog.com  Jaroslav Vishtaljuk

0/5
"I was so irritated that I paid money to see this that I snuck into two movies afterward to feel better about my investment. Boooooooooring."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Karina Montgomery

2.5/5
"What killed this film in the theater was the lack of plot."  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

3.5/4
"Heroic Fantasy of the first order, from filmmakers who obviously studied the paintings of Frank Frazetta and the writings of Robert E. Howard."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

1.5/4
"A chaotic piece of storytelling, told with the dull flash of quick-cut editing, ugly cinematography, and clichés that apparently pre-date Columbus' journey to the New World."  Mark Reviews Movies  Mark Dujsik

"[A] compelling example of purely cinematic storytelling that eschews almost all dialogue and lets moody colors and visceral action tell a tale that is mythic and metaphoric..."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

2.5/4
"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."  Mr. Brown's Movies  Michael Dequina

1/4
"Strives to be a latter-day Conan the Barbarian."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

2/5
"A one-note slog through some painfully familiar territory."  Cinematical  Scott Weinberg

3/10
"Whatever significance the legend had gets lost amid the repellent butchery."  www.susangranger.com  Susan Granger
OFCS Rating: 13% Rotten
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