Pathfinder

Nicely balances action and adventure with American Indian wisdom and a modest romance to provide a graphic-comic-book movie experience for males in urban markets.

It's undone by a murky palette, silly horror-movie cliches, dumb dialogue and a confusing climactic sequence.

If this uninspired fight-fest had been delayed out of existence, it's unlikely anyone would have missed it.

All cinematic creativity seems to have focused on devising the most repellent ways to maim and murder.

In a way, it's perfect: You can't imagine anyone seeing this mess and not feeling lesser for the experience.

It's a tedious experience in almost every way: The acting is numbingly one-note, the CGI work is unconvincing and often downright shoddy, and the action is poorly staged and framed so close you can never tell for sure who is lopping off whose head.

No more than a minute into this, and it becomes obvious that the next 98 are going to be trouble.

Pathfinder was not nearly as bad as many people are making it out to be. True, the editing was mediocre at best, with the seasons clearly out of whack. There were some pretty odd issues with language as well. The filmmakers relied on some trite Native American imagery and stereotypes... But Pathfinder was obviously never about the plot or silly Viking outfits. Ultimately I think the filmmakers wanted to impress upon the viewers the starkness of the landscape of "uncivilized" North America, and how the people who lived there survived. One of the best lines in the movie is delivered when Ghost tells his lady friend that the Vikings know eternal winter, but "don't know our spring." I think the movie, in its own kind of botched way, did a good job conveying the awe, reverence and fear that the people who lived in N.A. had for the seasons and the natural environment.

This film has so much potential but all of it is thrown out the window. There is so little dialog... Karl Urban is such a good actor and his talent is completely wasted in this film. Vikings with thicker armor than the Uruk-hai from Lord of the Rings. I think you only see the faces of the Vikings once or twice. Then there's an over use of Film Grain. And bad acting in General. The entire movie has a weird color pallet of Grey and green on top of the film grain. Some cool action scenes here and there. There are scenes that transition so quickly you don't know what happened in between. I don't know what to say... When I saw Karl Urban in a Vikings action movie I thought it would be a much better film :(

Its hard to describe why this film is so bad. Its like every single element of the film is mediocre and this all adds up to it being one of the worst films I've ever seen. The sound is poor - barely any dialogue, barely any music to build atmosphere. The colour is poor - the whole film is filmed in the "boring dull colours" style, so its just depressing to watch and incredibly tedious after a while. Although some snow does appear to change the scene a bit. The acting is non existent. There isn't really any dialogue, so no way for any characters to develop. The action is pretty poor as well due to an overuse of slow motion. Some parts aren't bad, but the rest of the film is so poor that its difficult to get excited about any of it. The filming is generally poor. In many scenes you find yourself wishing the camera would zoom out so you could actually see whats going on. The story is uninspired and really doesn't work as there are no characters to care about. The film is also too long seeing as nothing really happens in it. Having said all this, it really is worth watching to calibrate your opinion on other films. If you think a particular film is the worst you've ever seen and haven't seen this film, you need to watch this.