Loosely based on the 1987 Academy Award-nominated Norwegian film PATHFINDER (OFELAS), Marcus Nispel's brawny period adventure could have been an impressive-looking historical action adventure along the lines of APOCALYPTO or even 300. And like 300, the new film depicts a turning point in history when one civilization tried to conquer another, but ultimately failed just think how different our world would be if the Persians had squelched Greek culture, or if the Norsemen had established a permanent base in North America centuries before Columbus showed up. However, unlike those films, which were engaging on all sorts of levels despite their crassness, there is little in Pathfinder that is all that interesting.Like those films, Pathfinder also has a lot of violence—but it doesn't have a lot of action, and that is one of.
Still tormented by visions of his bloody childhood, Ghost wants nothing more than to become a Wampanoag brave. Fifteen years later, the boy is a man (Karl Urban) whom the Wampanoag call "Ghost" because of his complexion. Over the objections of several tribal leaders, who fear this child of "the dragon men" will one day prove true to his blood and turn against them, the defiant woman adopts the pale, fair-haired child and raises him as her own. One afternoon, a woman (Michelle Thrush) from the native Wampanoag tribe stumbles across the abandoned hull of a wrecked Norse vessel among the shackled corpses on board she discovers a young boy (Burkely Duffield), the son of a fierce Viking warrior who was been left behind after refusing to participate in the carnage.
Set high on a narrow path on a sheer cliff face during a snowstorm, it's hard to know what's happening to whom, and even harder to care. That achievement, however, is obscured by the gloom that hangs over every scene, and it's anyone's guess what's happening in that final scene. After convincing the defiant village braves that to stay and fight would only mean certain death, he returns to the forest, followed by Starfire (Moon Bloodgood), the woman he loves and the daughter of the tribe's pathfinder, to wreak his vengeance, halt the Viking rampage and discover his true destiny.To its credit, the film's costume design is extraordinary — the horned Viking armor really does look like something forged in hell — and Greg Blair's production design conveys a genuine sense of lives lived in balance with the environment: the Wampanoag huts and homes seem as much a part of the organic landscape as the trees that tower over them. Ghost narrowly escapes capture and reaches the neighboring villagers in time to warn them of an impending attack. The inner conflict between Viking and Wampanoag becomes a literal life-and-death struggle when Ghost returns from hunting to discover his entire village wiped out in yet another Norse raid.
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