Pathfinder (Blu-ray, Unrated)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 31, 2009
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Karl Urban & Jay Tavare | |
Performer: | Nathaniel Arcand, Moon Bloodgood, Clancy Brown, Russell Means & Ralf Moeller | |
Directed by | Marcus Nispel | |
Screenwriting by | Laeta Kalogridis | |
Composition by | Jonathan Elias | |
Produced by | Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer & Marcus Nispel | |
Director of Photography: | Daniel Pearl |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C- --
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.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1.5/5 --
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.
Film Threat
Rating: 2/5 --
Never has an idea of such splendid nuttiness been so squandered to the god of neurotic style.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 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.
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ReelViews
Without a relatable or sympathetic character in its lineup, Pathfinder is a blunt object designed to beat the audience over the head with gore until even the most sensitive viewer is left yawning at the ugliness.
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WORLD
Rating: 2/5 --
Metal heads will be in Valhalla; everyone else should find a different path.
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BBC.com
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.
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Variety
Product Description:
Wearing its R rating for violence like a badge of honor, PATHFINDER bears more resemblance to a horror film than most of its historical action-film brethren. Director Marcus Nispel cut his teeth on the remake of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and that experience has left a bloody thumbprint on this film. PATHFINDER shares the horror movie aesthetic, with its generous use of blood, jump moments, and shadow. Centuries before Christopher Columbus reached American shores, the Vikings carved a bloody path through the continent. When a shipwreck kills a boat full of Vikings and their Native American captives, the only survivor is a young blond child. Adopted by the People of the Dawn tribe, the boy grows up into a warrior. As an adult, the former Viking, now named Ghost (Karl Urban, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING), is an important member of his tribe with only disturbing memories to tie him to the Norsemen. When another ship of Vikings destroys his village and all he knows, he vows revenge.
This remake of the Norwegian film OFELAS boasts several innovative action sequences, one involving a shield used as a sled in the snow. With his work in the Lord of the Rings films, Urban has perfected his talent at swordplay, and his prowess is evident here. His character takes on the Viking invaders almost single-handedly and stalks them, picking them off one by one. This is an action-filled film that doesn't let dialogue get in the way of the elaborate fight scenes.
This remake of the Norwegian film OFELAS boasts several innovative action sequences, one involving a shield used as a sled in the snow. With his work in the Lord of the Rings films, Urban has perfected his talent at swordplay, and his prowess is evident here. His character takes on the Viking invaders almost single-handedly and stalks them, picking them off one by one. This is an action-filled film that doesn't let dialogue get in the way of the elaborate fight scenes.