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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 37 Ratings

  • Starring: Clancy Brown, Karl Urban
  • Summary: 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)
  • Director: Marcus Nispel
  • Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
  • Rating: Unrated
  • Runtime: 99 min
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 23
  2. Negative: 12 out of 23
  1. 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.
  2. A bizarre, bloody adventure movie.
  3. Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    All cinematic creativity seems to have focused on devising the most repellent ways to maim and murder.
  4. Reviewed by: Matthew Sorrento
    30
    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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 7 out of 11
  1. JaredC.
    10
    It may start off dumb, but you get used to its dumbness after a while, and in its own thrilling way its good. Well, at least I liked it.
  2. Great violence. . . Horrible plot. . . but still entertaining. This movie would have been epic if they dispensed with english throughout the whole feature and didn't elaborate on the plot details as much to focus on the good vs evil battle taking place in a farcical action movie way. Expand
  3. SnackyBear
    3
    The thing that disturbs me most about this movie is that I could not imagine how the vikings could fit their horses into their narrow-hulled ships, because as I saw from the movie, these were the kind of ships they used to cross the ocean and reach foreign land. I'm not familiar with Nordic history, but did the vikings rear and ride horses? Maybe they should have incorporated Led Zep's "Immigrant Song" into this movie to make it sound better because the dialogue was diabolical. Expand
  4. SteveL.
    3
    The plot line was quite far fetched even including the "historical elements" of the film. In response to Franklin's claim about the horses on the boats, that part actually is true. Horses were expensive commodities and vikings would bring them and any other practical belongings with them when they were going "a viking." Unfortunately, this doesn't make the movie any better. Expand

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