Author: Karl Urban

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 31-07-2007

Details: Pathfinder is a curious, cross-genre movie with elements of horror, sword-clanging fantasy, historical fiction, and Native American mysticism. A classic story of an outsider-hero, \"Pathfinder\" is set approximately five centuries before Columbus'\xc4\xf4 arrival in the New World, a time when Vikings were claiming real estate in Greenland and eastern North America. A young Norse boy is abandoned by his disapproving, conqueror-father and adopted by an aboriginal tribe. He grows up to become Ghost (Karl Urban), almost-but-not-entirely accepted by natives, yet a fierce swordsman and defender of Indians after a terrible assault on those whom he loves best. Clancy Brown (\"The Shawshank Redemption\") plays the fiercest of the invaders, a merciless leader who tangles with Ghost'\xc4\xf4s inherent prowess as a fighter, and engages in a psychological as well as physical struggle with him in the film'\xc4\xf4s final third, which involves a harrowing journey through an avalanche-prone mountain path. Russell Means (\"The Last of the Mohicans\") is a typically comforting presence as the all-wise Pathfinder, leader of a tribal nation and Ghost'\xc4\xf4s supporter, while Moon Bloodgood (\"Eight Below\") is outstanding as a love interest with nerves of steel. Marcus Nispel (who directed the 2003 remake of \"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre\") guides the brutal if often exhilarating action as if it were amplified history. He makes the point for a contemporary audience that Vikings were as terrifying a danger to those whom they conquered as, say, Klingons are in \"Star Trek\"--precisely by making his Vikings seem so reminiscent of Klingons. --\"Tom Keogh\" \\n\\n Beyond \"Pathfinder\" \\n\"Pathfinder\" (Paperback) \\n\"Pathfinder\" Soundtrack \\nNorse Mythology Products \\n\\n\\n Stills from \"Pathfinder\"

UPC: 024543450320

EAN: 0024543450320

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood