Stay home and watch the WWF. The only difference is; they don't fight with swords
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02/14/01
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
The actors keep the film from becoming too stupid
01/01/00
There's intense action and terrific violence for much of this film.
01/01/00
Skøl!
01/01/00
Mr. Crichton may have found the perfect venue for his particular brand of character underdevelopment.
07/14/07
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03/24/02
For fans of the genre, it's an inexorably primal exercise almost like cinematic steroids: qualitatively lacking, if not harmful, yet superficially irresistible.
06/05/02
Character development? Nil. Plot twists? Zip. Emotional involvement with anyone in the movie? Nada.
01/01/00
With a budget said to be more than $100 million, it displays a lot of cash on the screen, but little thought.
01/01/00
Top CriticLoaded with potential, it's puzzlingly overblown and distant, as if its huge budget were an albatross around its neck.
01/01/00
Top CriticA sensação que fica, ao final da projeção, é a de que vimos um filme vazio - e sobre o personagem errado. E o que é pior: no qual nada acontece.
05/31/02
. Seeing "The 13th Warrior" is like wishing for light at the end of a long dark tunnel, when we both know nothing is really there.
01/01/00
No review available.
01/01/00
The film falls short of its goal to find a distinct personality and never attains the suspension of belief required of genre films like Conan or 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
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
The key performances are strong and the sets well-realized, but a spotty script and an awkward anticlimax might have you pining for Bruce Willis' next modern-day disaster-blaster.
01/01/00
"The 13th Warrior" is a brazen attempt to brand Antonio Banderas as an A-lister with a C-grade script. Failure attends.
11/28/09
Shelved for over a year and probably heavily edited, it's better than it could have been.
05/26/06
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 acting is quite good, with Banderas showing once again the charm and athletic ability he brought to The Mask of Zorro.
01/01/00
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