Russell Means appears as the title character, mostly incidental to the plot, while Moon Bloodgood (with a horrible accent) stars as his daughter and the token love interest. Cue action and violence, as Ghost´s community is slaughtered and our hero is captured and forced to lead the Vikings to more people to slaughter – but he has some tricks up his sleeve.Īnd what the original film thrived on, the cleverness of the main character while sabotaging his captors, is ridiculously thrown together here as Vikings fall through thin ice, fall off narrow cliffs, and – incredibly – our hero instantly causes an avalanche with a catcall. A Viking boy left orphaned after a failed expedition into the Americas is taken in and raised by Native Americans years later, the boy – now called Ghost and played by Karl Urban – faces off against a new wave of Viking intruders who have come to pillage and plunder and brutally, graphically murder any of the natives they come across.Īnd just why are they doing this? ‘Cuz they´re Vikings. General plot is the same as the 1987 film, with a few cosmetic differences. Random bloodshed is all well and good, but sometimes it´s nice to know who´s getting their head chopped off, and who´s doing the chopping. It´s all style, and no coherency – action scenes are so frantic and briskly edited that one often has little idea of what, exactly, is going on.
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A murky, muddled, self-indulgent action flick, Marcus Nispel’s Pathfinder is an unofficial remake of a true classic, the 1987 Norwegian film by the same.Īnd just like the director´s last film, a remake of the splatter classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the movie sacrifices the script – plot, characters, dialogue and all – for expressive visuals, giving us a nicely produced but entirely hollow film that passes as mindless entertainment but feels entirely unnecessary and somewhat insulting, showing no respect for the original film it´s taking away from.Īnd yet, the film does provide some fun on a Conan the Barbarian – nah, make that Conan the Destroyer – level, but Nispel takes things much too seriously, draining out most of the fun along with the color, and directing with the feverish artistic flair of a music video.
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