Very disappointing...

How sad is this?

Great Film overall

Fantastic!

brutally torn apart by the official critics, Pathfinder is both my favorite Karl Urban performance and a classic story of the outsider finding his place and his identity in this world through courage and companionship. Anyone who can't identify with this plot has been through too little trouble in this world and little self-searching. It may be true that there is little originality, but has it not also been said there there are no truly new stories to be told in this world? and that was said many centuries ago. not the best film to be made in modern times, but far, far from the worst and there are more highly rated films and TV that are vastly worst.

Some kind of record must have been set for number of decapitated heads rolling in one film; likewise, gallons of fake blood spraying during the decapitations and limbs being severed. All pretty realistic except the volume of blood spraying was a bit much. All in keeping with the film-makers decision to use horny helmets on the Vikings in spite of known to be inaccurate. Ten minutes were spent cliff-hanging by a rope, with the rope refusing to fail until it finally had to be cut with a knife/sword. This was the darkest film I have seen since "The 300" - apparently a feature required when setting graphic novels/comics for the big screen.

American quality, so it gives 10000% wrong image about vikings. Story was good, though. I also liked many things about this movie: awesome looking props, good acting, but vikings were just too unrealistic because vikings were not that violent (In real life)Battles in this movie are exciting and awesome. You can feel how awesome this movie is, when you look at backgrounds, villages and clothes. They all fit well in this movie. Only thing i didn't like was making vikings the bad guys and viking clothing was too unrealistic. And like i said, battles are amazing, like when they are fighting while sliding down the hill. This movie was OK but i have seen a lot better ones.

Released in 2007, "Pathfinder" relays the story of Vikings coming to North America hundreds of years before Columbus and bringing death & destruction to the Native Americans. One of the natives, Ghost (Karl Urban) is actually a Viking by blood, a survivor of the previous Viking expedition, brought up by the Indians. Understandably, Ghost denies his Viking heritage and fights for the natives.I thought this was going to be some low-budget Syfy flick but, no, "Pathfinder" was a theatrical release with stellar production values. The first thing I noticed was that the director was Marcus Nispel, who went on to direct the 2011 version of "Conan the Barbarian." As others have noted, there are some derivative bits sprinkled throughout, e.g. "Conan the Barbarian," "Rambo 2," "Last of the Mohicans," etc., but it's unique enough to embrace and enjoy.The villains are the Vikings, who are depicted as cartooney inhuman monsters, whereas the natives are virtuous. This brings up the whole nature vs. nurture issue as Ghost is of Viking heritage but because he's brought up by the spiritual natives he isn't corrupted by the Vikings' ways. This suggests that evil or immorality is socially spread.Russell Means, who played Chingachgook in "Last of the Mohicans," is on hand as the elder Pathfinder. It's great to see him still truckin' along at almost seventy years old.The film was shot in British Columbia in mostly forest settings, but with occasional mountains that don't look anything like the Northeast. Despite this flaw, "Pathfinder" is a visually striking film from beginning to end, and I don't just mean the scenery. Nispel knows how to make a spectacularly good-looking film, that's for sure. In fact, it's so awe-inspiring it's worth the price of admission.Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the story. Everything's there for a quality story, but somehow it's just not all that captivating like "Last of the Mohicans" or the original "Conan the Barbarian," although it's not bad, and it's certainly better than "Rambo 2." Some complain about the extreme violence but it's definitely not a case of violence for the sake of violence as there are a lot of dramatic valleys to contrast the violent highs. Depth is hinted at, many times, I just wish there was more.GRADE: B