4/7/2024 0 Comments Pathfinder movie review![]() "Pathfinder" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). (He was the lead vivisectionist for the remake of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.") He may not be able to make this movie move, but, man, can he make an eyeball fly. The director, Marcus Nispel, takes his butchery very seriously. There's a hero, of course, a Viking throwaway who had been dropped on the native doorstep some 15 years earlier and has grown up to become Karl Urban or, actually, a vaporous character named Ghost. The brisk, distinctive 'Pathfinder' (the Fine Arts), a 1988 best foreign film Oscar nominee, opens with a panorama of a snowy earthly paradise, a small community of sturdy Lapps, clad in reindeer. The story is shallow and uninteresting, the stakes are low, and. Into this paradise comes a Norseman of the apocalypse, or rather a whole boatload, thundering off a ship from the Old World to pillage and wreak ruin with clanging steel, swinging mace and lots and lots of grunting. The main problem is that, for all of its sword fights and chase scenes, Pathfinder isnt fun. All grunting, all goring, the witless action flick "Pathfinder" has little to recommend it, though Terrence Malick completists may be interested to know that it rips off a few setups from that master's magnum opus "The New World." The time is the 10th century A.D., "500 years before Columbus," or so it says in some introductory text, and the place is some pastoral if murkily shaded, almost monochromatic, stretch of coast, where native peoples hunt, fish and smile with what's meant to be the wisdom of the ages but registers as cultural cliché. ![]()
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