Pathfinder - Le sang du guerrier

L'action est tellement opaque que vous ne voyez pas ce qui se passe et qui a éliminé qui et vous ne le découvrez qu'en fonction de ceux qui quittent la bataille vivants. À une époque de batailles poétiques et claires comme dans le film 300, un tel handicap est injustifiable, surtout pour un film qui repose principalement sur l'action. Raconter une histoire et travailler avec les personnages est également un mystère pour Marcus Nispel. Que sait vraiment ce créateur ? Dans ce cas, seulement envelopper l'écran de cinéma dans une obscurité émotionnellement plate. Un film horrible basé sur un scénario au niveau d'intelligence des pires adaptations de jeux vidéo, qui est complètement enterré par les scènes finales à suspense, qui rappellent les techniques cinématographiques d'Ed Wood (plans longs d'une avalanche qui tombe, pris d'on ne sait où). Après bien des hésitations, je dois descendre à 1*. Cela n’a pas sa place au cinéma. (17/06/2007)

Norwegians, like a bunch of hobnailed predators, hippie Indians, and Karl Urban, half-naked, rides under majestic mountain peaks. Only old Homolka with a two-handed ax, praising the panoramas, is missing. Nispel is a loser who can scare you in all manner of ways, especially through his complete amateurism. Unwatchable bullshit. (17/06/2009)

A bored Karl Urban in his least charismatic role to day, an interesting premise that is wasted, brutally heavy-handed fights (all of them in slow-motion!), awful-looking CGI blood in every other shot, a stupidly simple mythology and message, a plot that is not really worth talking about. In short, a brilliant example of a butchered high-budget and grandstanding project that has the soul of a hundred-year-old corpse. (17/02/2008)

A gritty fantasy tale that somewhat reminded me of Conan the Barbarian. It has about as much in common with the historical reality of Vikings as I, an atheist, have with the role of a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Within the genre, it's clearly below average in terms of both script quality and direction. The only noteworthy aspect might be the costumes. Overall impression: 25%. (21/06/2007)

The positives end with the subject matter, which is quite decent (but incidentally stolen from the literary classic J. F. Cooper). The rest is a mix of retarded cluelessness of both the screenwriter (half a page of the main axis, about 10 lines for the main character’s dialogue, and a handful of terrible dialogues) and the director, who should have it explained to him that there is no darkness like darkness and that the de-colored filter, together with the chaotic editing and the constantly thundering music are not particularly in fashion. Pathfinder lacks charisma (Karl Urban is bored instead of being a tough guy), insight (there really is a lot of marble here), and most of all balls. The opening credits and the atmospheric prologue, which is relatively well handled, are perhaps the most interesting parts of this whole charade. This is probably the worst high-budget blockbuster currently available. (05/07/2007)