Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

goldenarrow-99823 I liked the concept of this but wasn't impressed with the execution of it. Lighting was crap so everyone looked alike.

Anssi Vartiainen The biggest problem with Pathfinder is that it's style over substance. It feels less like a movie and more like an hour and a half long heavy metal music video. And on some level that's awesome. It has native Americans fighting demonic vikings, on majestic mountains, in the middle of a raging winter storm. As I said, heavy metal.But, even though I know I have to turn in my male membership card for saying this, it needs more. It needs to have characters that have actual, well, character. It needs to have dialogue. Because there actually is very little of that in here, it's mostly just wordless action. As I said, music video. It needs to have a plot beyond basic good guy kills bad guys. There really are no actors, only stunt men. The location is unrealistic, the vikings laughably over the top, it suffers from the oh so enraging "in the end it takes a white guy to solve the problem, even when the problem is the white guys" syndrome and it's about the definition of brainless.Then again, did I mention the demonic vikings. Because they're cool, they're really cool. I cannot deny that a significant part of me went "Oh yeah!" more often than not while watching this film. And sure, the visuals are needlessly dark and muddled, but the action itself is pretty cool to watch, the designs got a lot of things right and there is some "so bad it's good" value to this. It's dumb, but if you've ever wondered what it would be like if your favourite heavy metal music video was longer and had something resembling a plot, this might be worth a watch. Pop in some Amon Amarth, turn down the volume of your TV and enjoy.

Chris0184 I am usually a massive advocate of "It's a film, it's made up or they are using artistic licence, so get over it and enjoy it". However, in the case of Pathfinder I simply cannot.I have now attempted to watch this twice, the second time assisted by a bottle or two of wine and still have been unable to make it past 40 minutes. The story is terrible, the acting poor and the "Vikings"?!?!? They look more like something out of Mad Max or Chronicles of Riddick.The CGI effects, especially during fight scenes, are extremely poor - a sword clearly touching someones back provides us with a massive splash of CGI blood that is just unrealistic. Simply appalling. I won't be trying a third time with this rubbish!

nvjs From the start, Pathfinder was Bad. The direction was weak. Nispel clearly doesn't have the chops to do action. Which should say something since it requires the least experience to break into films. Nispel's other films were "Frankenstein", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", and the re-imaging of "Friday the 13th". All horror films. Pathfinder hopefully will be his first and last attempt at making action films this bad. Like I've criticized Mark Steven Johnson for is the same as Nispel for printing the first and probably the only takes. The actors are of the amateur caliber under Nispel's direction with over/under doing it. But Pathfinder doesn't try to be anything it isn't. With that said, it doesn't try to make a concerted effort at the whole action theme either. What does salvage the film from being a total waste is Daniel Pearl's lush and rich color palette darkening that gives the film a moody and ominous look and feel. The art direction and production design are also to the film's benefit. The Vikings or Norsemen truly look feral and formidable with the anachronistic and faux pas goat horns and canine riddled helmets. This truly gives them a touch of aesthetics to help sell the idea that the Natives are over-matched.Clearly, Nispel felt that the less we know about either faction, the less sympathy we'd have for either. It seems the Natives were meant, merely fodder for gratuitous (yawn) scenes which are gratuitous for the sake of gratuity and to make you feel contempt for the Vikings. The whole "story" is that the Vikings, for sheer boredom decide to satiate their inexplicable desire to just kill "savages". There isn't any "McGuffin" here to help move the story forward, no exposition for the characters, little if any semblance for the hero, Ghost's dramatic arc where he learns something about himself for personal growth, and a page ripped from the Michael Bay book of film making: Tell the story without cliché'd words. Use action and random explosions as the characters,story, and plot. By the way, Michael Bay was a producer on "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". So if Nispel's learned anything from him, it's how to emulate him. That is NOT a compliment.