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Pathfinder
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong brutal violence throughout
Starring
Jay Tavare,
Nicole Muñoz,
Michelle Thrush,
Karl Urban,
Moon Bloodgood,
Russell Means,
Clancy Brown,
and
Ralf Moeller
In an untamed, primordial America, 500 years before Columbus will reach its shores, unfolds an epic battle between love and hate that will change one man’s destiny and the future of a nation: Pathfinder. (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
|
Adventure
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Drama
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War
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Laeta Kalogridis
Nils Gaup (1987 screenplay Veiviseren)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Marcus Nispel
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 31, 2007
Theatrical: April 13, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Nicely balances action and adventure with American Indian wisdom and a modest romance to provide a graphic-comic-book movie experience for males in urban markets.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Urban and Bloodgood make the most of their parts, locking eyes and arms, and occasionally using American English as if the snowy 10th century were another way of saying, "Where the après ski?"

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
It's undone by a murky palette, silly horror-movie cliches, dumb dialogue and a confusing climactic sequence.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Pathfinder is aimed more at the action-figure crowd than the history buffs.

50
New York Daily News
Robert Dominguez
After the first 1,000 or so beheadings, impalements and severed limbs, Pathfinder's slash may just induce sleep.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A bizarre, bloody adventure movie.

42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
If this uninspired fight-fest had been delayed out of existence, it's unlikely anyone would have missed it.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Pathfinder's moody, muddy look is courtesy of music-video director Marcus Nispel, who doesn't distinguish between people and tree trunks when it comes to emotional content.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Mainly it's messy, and I don't just mean the gouged-out eyeball in a puddle.

40
Variety
Peter Debruge
Like "300" and "Apocalypto," this latest bit of historical balder-dash stands in direct defiance of proven action-movie formulas, trusting its brutal concept and striking visuals to overcome a lack of star power.

40
Empire
Ian Nathan
For crying out loud, Marcus -- all you had to do was have Vikings fight Indians! How hard was that?

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
All cinematic creativity seems to have focused on devising the most repellent ways to maim and murder.

30
Los Angeles Times
Michael Ordona
One of the funniest films of the year. That's not good news for this attempted action-adventure, which clearly lost its way in its own copious fog.

30
LA Weekly
Jessica Grose
There is one redeeming skirmish -- the climactic fight involving a snowy cliff and an elaborate pulley system -- but from the guy who's directed videos for Cher, Amy Grant, Billy Joel, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony? We expected more.

30
Film Threat
Matthew Sorrento
The fault here lies in the film’s dead rhythm, which never lights the sparks necessary for an action film. The plot and action progress like an eroding lakeshore, but the energy and excitement are washed away in every scene.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's a tedious experience in almost every way: The acting is numbingly one-note, the CGI work is unconvincing and often downright shoddy, and the action is poorly staged and framed so close you can never tell for sure who is lopping off whose head.

25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
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.

25
Miami Herald
Colin Covert
Too small to be a spectacle, too humorless to take seriously and too stupid to pass muster at a middle school writing workshop.

25
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
In a way, it's perfect: You can't imagine anyone seeing this mess and not feeling lesser for the experience.

20
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Makes "Conan the Barbarian" seem like Dostoyevsky in its complexity.

20
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The director, Marcus Nispel, takes his butchery very seriously. (He was the lead vivisectionist for the remake of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.") He may not be able to make this movie move, but, man, can he make an eyeball fly.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
No more than a minute into this, and it becomes obvious that the next 98 are going to be trouble.

0
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Here's my nomination for future grindhouse double-bill from hell: Pathfinder and "Apocalypto."


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