2007 · adventure · action
Pathfinder
Directed by Marcus Nispel1h 39m2007
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Our read: Pathfinder (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded adventure · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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“You want grim Viking-versus-tribe survival action with Karl Urban leading the charge.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if brutal combat, torture, and colonial violence will sour the evening.
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