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Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: A few rousing action sequences can't make up for Pathfinder's non-existent plot and silly dialogue.
Theatrical Release:Apr 13, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $10,232,081
Synopsis: Wearing its R rating for violence like a badge of honor, PATHFINDER bears more resemblance to a horror film than most of its historical action-film brethren. Director Marcus Nispel cut his teeth on... [More]
Starring: Karl Urban, Jay Tavare, Nathaniel Arcand, Moon Bloodgood
Director: Marcus Nispel
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The movie is filmed in a way that makes it seem like the camera has epilepsy and the color desaturation renders everything murky. Someone should remind director Marcus Nispel that there's a difference between making a music video and a feature film.
Top CriticPathfinder's moody, muddy look is courtesy of music-video director Marcus Nispel, who doesn't distinguish between people and tree trunks when it comes to emotional content.
Top CriticThis latest bit of historical balder-dash stands in direct defiance of proven action-movie formulas, trusting its brutal concept and striking visuals to overcome a lack of star power.
Top CriticAs dim and dank as a power failure in a peepshow, Pathfinder is Apocalypto without the laughs or 300 without the muscular visuals and elevating dialogue.
Top CriticNo more than a minute into this, and it becomes obvious that the next 98 are going to be trouble.
Top CriticThe movie takes us on a journey to an ugly, contentious period in our misty, ancient past -- all the way back to four months ago, when Apocalypto came out.
Top CriticAfter the first 1,000 or so beheadings, impalements and severed limbs, Pathfinder's slash may just induce sleep.
Top CriticAll grunting, all goring, the witless action flick Pathfinder has little to recommend it.
Top CriticDialogue is a low priority in this film, which has less plot than most video games.
Top CriticThere's a fan's sincere hokeyness about Pathfinder that makes the experience relatively painless, in spite of the number of people who get tortured, decapitated or dismembered.
Top CriticThough Pathfinder was completed before 300 and the equally artful and brutal Apocalypto, it can still do nothing but slog along in their footprints.
Top CriticBlood flows freely here, but the movie never creates a keen sense of involvement or mystery. Even a major cliffhanging (literally) set piece winds up blurred by the addition of a blinding snowstorm.
Top CriticHere's hoping Pathfinder II is a straight-to-video- game release.
Top CriticThe movie is part Apocalypto (warriors, threat of hostile takeover, violence!) and part 300 (warriors, threat of hostile takeover, violence!), but with the commercial misfortune of being neither.
Top CriticAll cinematic creativity seems to have focused on devising the most repellent ways to maim and murder.
Top CriticThis one is an instant Mystery Science Theatre 3000 classic, ideal for watching on TV with loud friends.
Top CriticFilled with foggy shots stolen from LOTR and laden with decapitations, Pathfinder is faux-period gore trash with no redeeming qualities and a high dullness factor. Find another path.
Top CriticThe story makes Conan the Barbarian seem like Dostoyevsky in its complexity.
Top CriticLoud and overbusy but never exciting, Pathfinder is an action film only insofar as airborne prop heads and severed appendages equal action.
Top CriticThough you can't say Pathfinder doesn't deliver the goods, action-wise, the movie often has trouble sticking to its story between battles or involving us with its characters and its self-consciously mythic hero.
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