- Actors: Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Jay Tavare
- Directors: Marcus Nispel
- Writers: Laeta Kalogridis, Nils Gaup
- Producers: Arnold Messer, Barbara Kelly, Brad Fischer, John A. Amicarella, John M. Jacobsen
- Format: AC-3, Colour, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.40:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: 31 July 2007
- Run Time: 99 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000R9U3B0
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 130,582 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Pathfinder is a curious, cross-genre movie with elements of horror, sword-clanging fantasy, historical fiction, and Native American mysticism. A classic story of an outsider-hero, Pathfinder is set approximately five centuries before the arrival of Columbus in the New World, a time when Vikings were claiming real estate in Greenland and eastern North America. A young Norse boy is abandoned by his disapproving, conqueror-father and adopted by an aboriginal tribe. He grows up to become Ghost (Karl Urban), almost-but-not-entirely accepted by natives, yet a fierce swordsman and defender of Indians after a terrible assault on those whom he loves best. Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption) plays the fiercest of the invaders, a merciless leader who tangles with Ghost’s inherent prowess as a fighter, and engages in a psychological as well as physical struggle with him in the film’s final third, which involves a harrowing journey through an avalanche-prone mountain path. Russell Means (The Last of the Mohicans) is a typically comforting presence as the all-wise Pathfinder, leader of a tribal nation and Ghost’s supporter, while Moon Bloodgood (Eight Below) is outstanding as a love interest with nerves of steel. Marcus Nispel (who directed the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) guides the brutal if often exhilarating action as if it were amplified history. He makes the point for a contemporary audience that Vikings were as terrifying a danger to those whom they conquered as, say, Klingons are in Star Trek--precisely by making his Vikings seem so reminiscent of Klingons. --Tom Keogh
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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Pathfinder is a bloody yet beautiful movie with Karl Urban's character Ghost as a strong central character. Since you can read a synopsis of the film above, I won't go into details with the storyline, but just say that it brought tears to my eyes at times and it lingers. As a Dane I was quite curious to see how my ancestors were portraied - movies do tend to go a bit overboards with the Vikings;-)but some anachronisms apart, they remind me of the local hockey supporters so I'm okay with the way they come across on screen. And the fact that they speak Icelandic, which is the closest you get to the language we Scandinavians spoke at the time, is a nice touch. I have been eagerly awaiting this movie since I first heard about it, and I haven't been disappointed. The movie was featured at the Copenhagen International Film Festival in the shorter (cinema-)version, but I like this version better.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
It's Pathfinder! It's got Karl Urban in a loin cloth! It's full of scary massive Vikings! It's... kinda okay.
There's some great action and fighting complete with lovely graphic CGI blood splatters and the panoramic scenery of the New World is beautifully shot. BUT the movie itself is just lacking something to me. Personally, I think its pace is too fast and bar a cheesy destiny and a hasty intro to Karl's romantic interest VS tiresome rival, it doesn't really deliver much in terms of story or character development that we haven't already seen before. Sometimes you can get away with that in action movies, but this world offered interesting insights to both cultures and didn't ruddy do anything with them. Which is a pity. So the Dragon Men remained monstrous and snarly and the People of the Dawn just kinda got barbecued and ran away a lot. Karl of course gets upset that his adopted family is minced by his nasty horny beardy skull wearing finger collecting kinsmen and pulls a Die Hard on them.
A below average movie with above average effects. Nothing all that special really but worth a gander if you fancy a cliche ridden action flick...and Karl Urban in a loin cloth.
There's some great action and fighting complete with lovely graphic CGI blood splatters and the panoramic scenery of the New World is beautifully shot. BUT the movie itself is just lacking something to me. Personally, I think its pace is too fast and bar a cheesy destiny and a hasty intro to Karl's romantic interest VS tiresome rival, it doesn't really deliver much in terms of story or character development that we haven't already seen before. Sometimes you can get away with that in action movies, but this world offered interesting insights to both cultures and didn't ruddy do anything with them. Which is a pity. So the Dragon Men remained monstrous and snarly and the People of the Dawn just kinda got barbecued and ran away a lot. Karl of course gets upset that his adopted family is minced by his nasty horny beardy skull wearing finger collecting kinsmen and pulls a Die Hard on them.
A below average movie with above average effects. Nothing all that special really but worth a gander if you fancy a cliche ridden action flick...and Karl Urban in a loin cloth.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I watched this film really expecting the worst but was pleasantly surprised! It was an actioned packed adventure movie with brutal fight scenes and a mystical air to it. Having the vikings speaking Iclandic was a good touch and be assured that the way they were depicted pillaging it probably not to far from the truth. Lets not forget the Viking Raiders were not known for their diplomacy!
All in all an enjoyable film and certainly not worthy of some of the slating reviews it has received!
All in all an enjoyable film and certainly not worthy of some of the slating reviews it has received!
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