Apr 29 2007
Pathfinder
Dir: Marcus Nispel
Writ: Laeta Kalogridis based on Veiviseren by Nils Gaup
- Karl Urban … Ghost
- Russell Means … Pathfinder
- Moon Bloodgood … Starfire
- Jay Tavare … Blackwing
- Clancy Brown … Gunnar
Five hundred years before Columbus another European people journeyed to the Americas. These raiders left behind a young boy, who was taken in by The People of the Dawn, and when, many years later, the Vikings return, he is the one to fight back and save his adopted people.
Okay, so you know the way you see a really really bad trailer and think to yourself, well it might be fun in a no brain, mindless entertainment way. Well this didn’t even live up to my low expectations. There is nothing to redeem it. Nothing at all. Well unless you want to spend 99 minutes watching Karl Urban fight. Which may have some attraction I’ll admit. But a bit of sense would be nice. This child was left behind and yet despite how ever many years passed he is still a great fighter. This maybe they can get away with because he kept his sword and we see him practising it. But the horse-riding ability? Yeah, okay! I know, I know, I really shouldn’t be looking for any sort of sense, but come on writer, you need some sort of thread that’ll tie things together. And since I’m being all negative, can I also complain that the fighting scenes were actually crap. I mean they looked cool and atmospheric, but I couldn’t tell what was going on in them at all.
And I really don’t want to get into the historical bit of it, but why on earth were the Native Americans portrayed as totally peaceful? I don’t know a lot about pre-european invasion America, but I’m pretty sure they would’ve raided each other’s tribes. I really did think that this sort of “noble savage” shite had died out. Guess I was wrong. And while I’m well aware that films need good guys and bad guys, and in the case of this sort of action film, very simple definitions of good and bad, can I just say wtf was up with that version of the Vikings? Did someone really want to make an “orcs v the Indians” film but couldn’t sell it?
In conclusion, urgh
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Tags: action, Clancy Brown, fights, historical fiction, Jay Tavare, Karl Urban, Laeta Kalogridis, Marcus Nispel, Moon Bloodgood, Nils Gaup, Pathfinder, plotless, Russell Means, silly, USA - pre-colonial, Veiviseren, VikingsRelated posts
Tags: action, Clancy Brown, fights, historical fiction, Jay Tavare, Karl Urban, Laeta Kalogridis, Marcus Nispel, Moon Bloodgood, Nils Gaup, Pathfinder, plotless, Russell Means, silly, USA - pre-colonial, Veiviseren, Vikings
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