The film is one of a rash of similar projects in the wake ofThe Lord of the Rings in which handsome men with rippling abs engage in hand-to-hand warfare against computer-generated opponents and backdrops.Pathfinder has particularly strong similarities to the slash-and-spill delights of300, the Frank Miller fantasy about super-buff Greeks defending civilization against wildly campy Persians.Visually darker and moderately more restrained thanPathfinder stars Karl Urban ( The Lord of the Rings), seen mostly shirtless, as Ghost, the young pale-face left behind by his cruel Viking dad for being too wimpy to kill an Indian boy. He comes to love their ways and leads them to resist the European invaders - think of it as Dances with Fjords.Pathfinder that makes the experience relatively painless, in spite of the number of people who get tortured, decapitated or dismembered. The story follows the adventures of a Viking boy left behind and raised by native Indians. Hoping to illustrate comics but ended up directing music videos (George Michael, Cher) instead.His first feature was a kind of homage, the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper'sThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which had more slicing (both editing and killing) and much more boredom than the original.Pathfinder, a fantasy about Vikings and Indians fighting in North America back around the first millennium, Nispel took part of its plot from an Oscar-nominated Norwegian film,Pathfinder is aimed more at the action-figure crowd than the history buffs. Growing up in the seventies and caught in the spell of American pop culture, he came to the U.S.
After that, well, you just know these barbarian invaders have been wearing their helmets way too tight.For those of us who are not evolved enough to get the bloodlust from our hearts, it must be acknowledged that, after seeing too many westerns in which the Indians line up like ducks at a shooting gallery to be mowed down, it's a welcome change to see the European savages get the same treatment. There's a long scene in which Ghost takes a long line of Vaders, I mean Vikings, on a trek through avalanche country, and encourages them all to tie themselves together for safety.
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