Michael Crichton's story is underdeveloped and narrow in range, resulting in a tale more curious for its odd confluence of elements than for their edifying deployment.
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06/17/08
The 13th Warrior (1999)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:7
Rotten:11
Average Rating:4.8/10
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
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Top CriticThe film is fascinating to watch, but I can hardly say what it's about, other than people killing each other.
07/21/05
Top CriticA big cathartic blast.
03/22/02
Top CriticThe 13th Warrior is a kick in the 10th century.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's little more than a shoddy string of action-movie cliches.
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Top CriticIt falls short where it counts: in the final confrontation.
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Top CriticThe 13th Warrior seems like a made-for-TV warrior movie without enough money to get really epic.
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Top CriticActually a well-marbled, albeit derivative, slab of action-movie man meat.
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Top CriticAn exhilarating 100 minutes!
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Top CriticAs movies about Norsemen go, it's not as witty as The Vikings with Kirk Douglas, but it holds your attention through sheer cinematic power.
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Top CriticThe most unexpectedly audacious, exhilarating, and wildly creative adventure thriller I have seen in ages!
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Top CriticThe 13th Warrior indulges in enough grubby histrionics and costume-adventure clichés to give you fifth-grade flashbacks.
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 CriticWith a budget said to be more than $100 million, it displays a lot of cash on the screen, but little thought.
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Top Critic
If the juiciest bouts of professional wrestling on television leave you feeling unfulfilled and pining for the primal howls of fight - to - the - death combat, The 13th Warrior just might be the answer to your prayers.
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Top CriticNo review available.
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