288: Pathfinder




I'm gonna be honest, I bought this movie for Karl Urban and then found out how much I loved it around him. Ha, ha. What is so interesting is how they make you believe that the Vikings looked that way in time. Very imposing, in your face and brutal. It also paints a very true picture of how Vikings were, they were brutal warriors who killed anything in their path that didn't fit with what they thought or believed. Then you get the Native Americans...so beautiful with their outfits in this movie and the culture they show only to have these unknown beings come and ruin it all. With Ghost, he comes from the land of the Vikings but was abandoned by them and raised by Natives. Not really belonging in one or the other, but at the same time both.

The action in this movie is really quite amazing with the stunt work. The behind the scenes is well worth the watch because Karl Urban did a good majority of his stunts if not completely all. Same with the warrior who he was competing with for the affections of the Pathfinder's daughter. In this movie the Vikings are very straight forward, bulky and harsh with their fighting, whereas Ghost knows the ways of using the land, sneaking, planning and manipulating. Using what he knows about each culture to defend the family that raised him as their own, even if they view him as not one of them. With the mystery of what happened to the Vikings, since they vanished in history, it is very easy to believe that Native Americans took them down. They are very good at blind spots and with the Vikings being a foreign land, not knowing how vast it is with it full of all of these tribes...fairly certain they all came together and wiped them out.

Though the movie is fiction, based in a time that is so long ago with hints of some history--though not a lot--it makes for a great story that seems believable. I know that this is also not the first movie and that there is an original that was made in the 80's, but I still love it. Highly recommend to anyone who likes an action movie that is not your normal explosions and car chases.

Tori M.

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