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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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D
"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
D
"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
D
"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."
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Susan Granger
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