Pathfinder (Unrated Edition) | 
| Director: Marcus Nispel
Actors: Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Jay Tavare
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Category: DVD
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Rating:  120 reviews
Sales Rank: 3178
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Icelandic (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2245032D
UPC: 024543450320
EAN: 0024543450320
ASIN: B000R9U3B0
Theatrical Release Date: April 13, 2007
Release Date: July 31, 2007
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Ur
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Pathfinder is a curious, cross-genre movie with elements of horror, sword-clanging fantasy, historical fiction, and Native American mysticism. A classic story of an outsider-hero, Pathfinder is set approximately five centuries before Columbus' arrival in the New World, a time when Vikings were claiming real estate in Greenland and eastern North America. A young Norse boy is abandoned by his disapproving, conqueror-father and adopted by an aboriginal tribe. He grows up to become Ghost (Karl Urban), almost-but-not-entirely accepted by natives, yet a fierce swordsman and defender of Indians after a terrible assault on those whom he loves best. Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption) plays the fiercest of the invaders, a merciless leader who tangles with Ghost's inherent prowess as a fighter, and engages in a psychological as well as physical struggle with him in the film's final third, which involves a harrowing journey through an avalanche-prone mountain path. Russell Means (The Last of the Mohicans) is a typically comforting presence as the all-wise Pathfinder, leader of a tribal nation and Ghost's supporter, while Moon Bloodgood (Eight Below) is outstanding as a love interest with nerves of steel. Marcus Nispel (who directed the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) guides the brutal if often exhilarating action as if it were amplified history. He makes the point for a contemporary audience that Vikings were as terrifying a danger to those whom they conquered as, say, Klingons are in Star Trek--precisely by making his Vikings seem so reminiscent of Klingons. --Tom Keogh
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 Life and death December 27, 2008
Canticle For Leibowitz (San Francisco, CA USA)
Vikings and Indians. Living Indians dead Vikings, and that's before the carnage...A great movie except for the garbage. Well acted, realistic, except for the cartoons...of course the vikings on raids were bloodthirsty murderous thugs, but they did not, by and large, actually step out of cheap video games...do you know, they actually TOOK THEIR HELMETS OFF sometimes? They weren't CREATURES from TOLKIEN, they were human beings who did terrible things...that's your movie, who WERE those guys? How could they do those things? Most of the vikings in this movie were like animate chess pieces with breath, their arms and legs moved, they made sounds, but these were pieces from a game box, not people, and usually not interesting..
At least one reviewer seems to feel this movie was on a par with living history, that we essentially go back in time and see the world as it was, one thousand years ago...kinda hard to tell, ain't it? I mean, what was he doing one thousand years ago, that he would know, you know?
Pathfinder could have and should have been a great movie. It was there in bits and pieces, scattered throughout the billowing reams of fast forward viking style horror/slasher movie total predictability...you know the one where everyone thinks the creature is dead, BUT ITS NOT!...uh, if the movie's makers had actually decided to make ONE MOVIE, and not three or four dissonant fragments, it might have been extraordinary...again, the pieces, the examples, the possibiities were there...the reality missed badly...too bad, there was some good acting and some fine moments...
What a movie it might have been...
Not bad.... December 14, 2008
Lee Justice (Stokesdale, NC USA)
This is not a bad movie but it's not a great movie either. I will say that the Vikings depicted here are the scariest, ugliest and most brutal I've ever seen in cinema. Their horses are even scary. I'd recommend it to friends of the genre.
 boring violence December 9, 2008
Edward C. Askew (NY NY USA)
this is one of the most violent movies i have ever seen. while it is well done..
the acting isn't bad..the editing etc is ok.. and all the gory, non-stop violence is certainly convincing. i didn't like the depiction of native peoples as, sort of, flower children who needed a white savior to protect and save them . and i didn't enjoy someone being guted, decapated, choped in half, every two minitues for the entire move. not exactly a brilliant plot. i threw the DVD away.
Bad film, but neat to watch... October 14, 2008
James Seger (The Woodlands, TX United States)
Really, this movie is not very good. Trust the negative reviews on this one. So why did I rate it three stars? Because this is the closest I've seen to a live action Frazetta painting.
If you have fond memories of those old sword-and-sorcery paperback covers of armored warriors riding out of the mist, you may like the look of this movie quite a bit.
Unfortunately, warriors in the mist, while it makes for an arresting visual, is awfully hard to make out in live action. The fights are gloriously violent and the claret flows like water. But even if you can get past the bad script and plot holes to enjoy the action, you will find it very hard to follow. All that mist and shadow makes for a movie that is muddled, muddy and dark.
For most people, I'd say skip this one. If you are a Frazetta fan, it might be worth a look, but even then, don't hold your breath.
VIKINGS! + INDIANS! - GOOD MOVIE = PATHFINDER September 11, 2008
Benjamin H. Moy
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is another movie in the lines of 10,000 B.C. where you have the ingredients for a fun filled dumbed out action fest, but instead you it cooks for too long, the flavor of fun is burned out, and all you have is the residual DUMB.
How could you mess this up? The story is simple enough. Unlike 10,000BC, it doesn't make the mistake of not really giving us enough action. The problem here is the directing of the action. Darkness is fine, but I still like seeing what I'm.. seeing. The armor the vikings was so convoluted and generic looking, they were like the old timey equivalent of the convoluted Transformers from the live action movie. Take a camera. Put it in a burlap sack filled with bones, pots, pans, dirt, and some blood. Now give the sack a good shake and splice the footage into this movie in place of the action scenes. Nobody would notice the difference. I didn't love 300, but at least it got the job done.
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