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Pathfinder (DVD)

 

Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 2007 / Director: Marcus Nispel / Actors: Karl Urban, Moon Bloodgood ... ... more
Pathfinder (DVD) ... / Features of the DVD: PAL / 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 the arrival of Columbus 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

Newest Review: ... Pathfinder quickly develops into a brisk sequence of chases, hunts and booby traps as our erstwhile withdrawn hero suddenly ... more

 ... develops a hidden talent to stalk and kill. It's all fairy tale stuff, of course, but given that your average audience loves a tale about one man's triumph against overwhelming odds, it's initially hard to believe that Nispel messed it all up quite as much as the critics would have you believe. In fairness, it's not completely true that he does. For starters, Pathfinder looks gorgeous amidst its snowy, mountainous North American setting, where Nispel captures the icy beauty of the Alaskan landscape through a ...more

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Crowned Review Pathfinder (DVD): Urban Waste (894 words)
by plipplop - written on 09.01.08 (Very useful, 71 readings)
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When a terrified child is found abandoned in a wrecked Nordic sailboat off the coast of North American, a local tribeswoman takes the boy under her wing. Whilst she and her husband accept the youth as their own, the rest of the tribe is less willing to accept the stranger into the village and as he grows into an adult, he is treated with mistrust. But the hostility of his fellow tribe's people is nothing compared to the terror he must eventually face. When Nordic marauders return to the North American coast, he is powerless to prevent the slaughter of those he holds dear and must instead commence a game of cat and mouse with an increasingly irritated group of Viking ...

 
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