Shelved for over a year and probably heavily edited, it's better than it could have been.
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05/26/06
The 13th Warrior (1999)
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Reviews Counted:87
Fresh:29
Rotten:58
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Atmospheric, great sets and costumes, but thin plot.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Director John McTiernan takes viewers back to 900 A.D. in THE 13th WARRIOR. After courting "an untouchable" Muslim princess, Ahmed (Antonio Banderas) is banished and sent North as an emissary. When... [More]
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Reviews for The 13th Warrior
At its best, this achieves the beauty and grandeur of a Kurosawa epic -- at its worst, however, it feels like a Python remake of The Vikings.
02/09/06
A Strong B+
01/01/00
Banderas creates a sympathetic hero, the script is remarkably free of '90-isms, the Viking characters are engaging, and The 13th Warrior offers some of the rousing retro pleasures of a good '50s cavalry - and - Indians B-movie.
01/01/00
The 13th Warrior indulges in enough grubby histrionics and costume-adventure clichés to give you fifth-grade flashbacks.
01/01/00
Top CriticStilted dialogue, ridiculous storyline and spurting arteries combine for a very ugly filmgoing experience.
01/01/00
Los que busquen profundidad en la historia se van a sentir algo decepcionados
01/01/00
Amounts to little more than a jumble of fire, horses and gory battle scenes. Amidst the constant flow of blood and mud and rain, you kind of feel dirty having just sat through it.
01/01/00
An exhilarating 100 minutes!
01/01/00
Top CriticAn abbreviated and shallow epic that comes off like an over-produced and dead-serious episode of the campy cult TV show Xena: Warrior Princess.
01/01/00
This stinker barks. It has been fermenting for a couple of years as the creative minds behind it continued to cut, recut then cut again, trying to make steak out of ground beef.
01/01/00
A widescreen epic adventure so beautifully designed and performed that it doesn't have to make a bit of sense.
01/01/00
A dull, dark, beautifully photographed but nonsensical sword - and - sorcery wannabe epic.
01/01/00
Rarely rises above the level of a "hack and slash" gorefest.
02/14/01
[Banderas is] playing an Arab character with a Spanish dialect, interacting with English-speaking Norsemen who look and act like a biker gang.
01/01/00
The screenplay effectively communicates the cross-cultural tensions between the Arabs, the Vikings, and the pagan Wendols.
03/05/02
It’s not a good sign when what the filmmakers seemingly intended to be a straightforward action film leaves the viewers saying, 'Huh?'
01/01/00
The actors keep the film from becoming too stupid
01/01/00
The actual story is really nothing more than a continuous and extremely gory battle scene, filled with missing heads, hacked-off limbs, and pools of blood.
01/01/00
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July 26, 2006:
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