| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
The most unexpectedly audacious, exhilarating, wildly creative adventure thriller I've seen in ages.
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| 75 |
New York Post
A deeply pleasurable, old-fashioned blood-'n'-guts adventure film.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It falls short where it counts: In the final confrontation.
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| 70 |
TNT RoughCut
My biggest complaint: Following two nasty bloodbaths and an invasion of the creatures' lair, the final showdown seems anti-climactic.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A straightforward, no-nonsense, agreeably old-fashioned historical action movie.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Has a remote feel. It sometimes impresses but never soars.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
For the most part it delivers the goods.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Dramatically empty Norse warrior adventure.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Gary Dauphin
A well-marbled, albeit derivative, slab of action-movie man meat.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Warrior has the underwritten, overproduced bluster of "Conan the Barbarian."
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
About everything is big in The 13th Warrior except the writing, which is microscopic.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Gives you the delirious thrill of ripping off your enemy's head and watching the blood gush by providing a ringside seat.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
Terrible, unnamable enemies turn out to be uncompelling indeed.
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| 40 |
Mr. Showbiz
Indulges in enough grubby histrionics and costume-adventure cliches to give you fifth-grade flashbacks.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
McTiernan's extensive action background is nowhere evident in the murky, all-but-impossible to follow battle sequences.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
Too lightweight and streamlined to be memorable.
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| 40 |
Variety
Bloody but anemic story.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Thinking too much about the contents will ruin what little pleasure there is in the experience.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Reminiscent of the opening moments of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," actually, only without the clever wit.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
Overwhelmingly grisly.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Just a great, empty wind machine.
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| 38 |
San Francisco Examiner
In tackling 1000 A.D., (McTiernan)'s suddenly an unwieldy, clunky filmmaker.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Lumbering from one expensive set piece to the next without taking the time to tell us a story that might make us care.
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| 30 |
Film.com
With the possible exception of the action sequences and the occassionally imaginitive set design, it's awful.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
Silly supernatural Viking epic.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
A grand, eye-popping film, a beautifully photographed epic with the depth of a Bugs Bunny Cartoon.
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| 20 |
Film.com
Mud-stained, blood-soaked and completely useless.
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