Two Worlds, One War. The Ultimate Battle Begins.
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Runtime: 99 minutes
Rating: 5.2/10 (15,361 votes)
Release Date: 11 January 2007
Country: USA
Languages: English, Icelandic
Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Sound: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
MPAA: Rated R for strong brutal violence throughout.
Director(s): Marcus Nispel
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Producer(s):
John A. Amicarella - associate producer
Brad Fischer - executive producer (as Bradley J. Fischer)
John M. Jacobsen - executive producer
Barbara Kelly - co-producer
Mike Medavoy - producer
Arnold Messer - producer (as Arnold W. Messer)
Lee Nelson - executive producer
Marcus Nispel - producer
Vincent Oster - co-producer
Louis Phillips - co-producer
Writer(s):
Laeta Kalogridis - (screenplay)
Nils Gaup - (1987 screenplay "Veiviseren")
Cast:
Karl Urban - Ghost
Moon Bloodgood - Starfire
Russell Means - Pathfinder
Clancy Brown - Gunnar
Jay Tavare - Blackwing
Nathaniel Arcand - Wind In Tree
Ralf Moeller - Ulfar
Kevin Loring - Jester
Wayne Charles Baker - Indian Father (as Wayne C. Baker)
Michelle Thrush - Indian Mother
Music: Jonathan Elias
John A. Amicarella - associate producer
Brad Fischer - executive producer (as Bradley J. Fischer)
John M. Jacobsen - executive producer
Barbara Kelly - co-producer
Mike Medavoy - producer
Arnold Messer - producer (as Arnold W. Messer)
Lee Nelson - executive producer
Marcus Nispel - producer
Vincent Oster - co-producer
Louis Phillips - co-producer
Writer(s):
Laeta Kalogridis - (screenplay)
Nils Gaup - (1987 screenplay "Veiviseren")
Cast:
Karl Urban - Ghost
Moon Bloodgood - Starfire
Russell Means - Pathfinder
Clancy Brown - Gunnar
Jay Tavare - Blackwing
Nathaniel Arcand - Wind In Tree
Ralf Moeller - Ulfar
Kevin Loring - Jester
Wayne Charles Baker - Indian Father (as Wayne C. Baker)
Michelle Thrush - Indian Mother
Music: Jonathan Elias
July 1st, 2008
I saw a preview for Pathfinder while watching a lionsgate film andthought it looked very promising indeed, oh how trailers can bedeceptive.
Pathfinder is the story of a young viking boy who gets abandoned duringa battle between his Viking clan and a group of native Americans. Theboy is then raised by the native Americans. A decade or so on theVikings return and it is up to the boy to now protect his adoptedpeople.
This film was horrible and may have been the worst film I have everseen (second only to anything Uwe Boll has created). My first andbiggest gripe was the spoken language, the vikings spoke in theirnative Swedish tongue accompanied by English subtitles which reallyadded to the authenticity of the film. However on the other end of thefilm you had the native Americans who for some reason spoke in a sortof modern American slang… why exactly the director and team thoughtthis sounded good I will never know.
Secondly the acting was by far the worst I have ever witnessed therewas no connection between any of the actors and at no point during thefilm was any emotion conveyed at all. Plus I can only remember aboutfive lines of dialogue being spoken throughout the whole film.
The lighting in the film is also a major downfall, during some pointsof the film it is unclear exactly what you are looking at because it'sso dark.
Overall the film was so tedious, drawn out, disjointed and the worstthing is the film had a lot of potential, I just wish Zack Snyder (300director) had directed it and then maybe this film would have beenworthwhile to the movie industry.
With all that said and done I still gave this a 1.8/10 which meansthere most have been something that impressed me, well in fact therewas two things, though they weren't significant enough to improve thefilm a great deal. Number one the setting for the film was fantastic, Ibelieve the film was shot in Vancouver, Canada and it was simplybeautiful. Number two and the final thing to impress me was theVikings, they were the only authentic thing about the film; thecostumes and the fact that they spoke in there native tongue was agreat feature of the film.
Overall, if I was given the choice of watching this film again orwatching paint dry for two hours I would most definitely choose thelatter.
July 23rd, 2008
I usually don't bother to rate a movie unless I thought it was at leastan 8, but there were so many bad reviews here I had to put my 2 centsin. It is not awful. It really isn't even bad. I enjoyed it, in fact,although I did notice some of the anachronisms and historical errors. Istill thought it was well worth watching.
So there.
Pathfinder is a hard-hitting look at a terribly bloody time that mighthave happened, in the early history of North America.
Not surprisingly, the Native Americans are the heroes here, and the bigbad Vikings are the predatory invaders. It's a bit odd to see theNorsemen using bows, and the helmets are apparently inaccurate, butit's a pretty good story and it certainly kept my attention.
Try it out.
August 23rd, 2008
Remakes are not always a bad thing. Insomnia was nearly as good as theoriginal and Assault on Precinct 13 was kind of OK, but this time theyreally shouldn't have done it.
I remember seeing the original movie when i was 15. I had never seenanything like it. The story was simple, gritty and violent and i stillremember it as one of the best action movies i have ever seen. I mean,man, there was no cg backgrounds, only wast amounts of snow and youcould feel the cold and the lonyless.
So i watched this new version with an open mind, perhaps it was OK. Butoh no. Boy was i wrong. In stead of using the landscapes an simplicityof the old movie, they,ve created this Conan look a like with reallyboring action and no soul. I mean its winter for crying out loud andthis poster boy viking is running around half naked. I am aware thatits a legend, but even legends need some amount of realism. Maybe thismovie is OK as a direct to video release on a lasy Sunday, where youhave nothing else to do and cant find your old Conan videos, but pleaseoh please do not relate it with the original
September 14th, 2008
Pathfiner is the story of Ghost, a young boy haunted by visions of bad,evil vikings doing bad things to good, nice village people. So Ghostgoes out to do bad things to the bad guys. And that's pretty much it.It's Jason Bourne 1000 years ago. It's hard to think such aspotentially great, brooding epic movie could be so linear and simple.
Pathfinder could have been a fantasy, but its not. Pathfinder could ofbeen an action movie, but its splatters blood of dark vikings all overthe white snow. It's an undefining film, it has no memorable actionsequenced or fights. It has no moral fibre or brain. It is only thehaunting vikings that add any depth to this movie, with theirspine-chilling horns and deep Norse breath. The acting is also aschilling, but in the sense it's chillingly bad. Ghost has one, mediocrefacial expression, and when in peril he looks like he's lost on thefinal level of Space Invaders.
Though the darkness of the film and its attempts to frighten audiencegather some merit, the filler between the heavy, samey action scenes isit's main pitfall. It questions nothing, does nothing, plodding alongin the blindingly white snow, before plunging into the freezing waterand never emerging.
September 21st, 2008
Unnecessary gore and violence. And I like gore and violence, and stillI thought it was all unnecessary. It felt fake and boring, despite howmany people were dying left and right, how much fighting and runningand then more fighting there was. It was just… boring.
The most interesting part was the very beginning where he was still aboy. Once they did the whole "fifteen years later" flash, it just lostmy interest entirely.
And that's saying something, because I'll watch almost anything.
It felt forced, clichéd and ultimately just not very well done. I likedKarl Urbane in The Lord of the Rings and in the Bourne Supremacy, butfor the life of me I could not watch him in this.
Dialogue was shoddy at best, acting was so-so, special effects were arip off, and the only part I really enjoyed despite it all was thescenery.
If you're a fan of the old Cowboys and Indians cliché and the White BoyAdopted By The Natives line, then by all means check it out. But it'still' won't be that good.
December 29th, 2008
Overwhelmed Native Americans armed with stone knives and tomahawksversus vicious, bloodthirsty Viking raiders clad in leather skins andfurs, heavily armored, and wearing fearsome-looking headgearbrandishing long steel swords, steel arrowheads, and very pointy macesattached to long, heavy chains. They ruthlessly spare no one.
That pretty much sums up this worthwhile flick.
Vikings had conducted numerous raids against European towns and citiesduring the period's Dark Ages, plundering their wealth and sometimesslaughtering their inhabitants. It's highly doubtful that Vikings hadever molested native Americans in our hemisphere. In reality, however,from the 16th century up to the late 19th century, settlers andsoldiers from the western European countries (ironically perhaps, manyof them descendants of the Viking raiders' victims) will eventually doto them what the Viking brutes had fictitiously wrought against theIndians in this movie.
If you relish slaughterfest films such as those featured in the "Conan"and "Lord of the Ring" movies, then you'll like this one.