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Earring72

Troubled flop was much better than espected with some exciting action scenes. Nothing great but easy watching adventure movie for a Saturday afternoon

6 years 2 months ago

The ugly reshoots done by Touchstone and Crichton can't disfigure the beautiful black diamond crafted by McTiernan that lies underneath.

Entertaining, powerful, barbaric movie. Still hoping for a director's cut edition...sometimes.

9 years 4 months ago

Marko1975

Really mediocre story. The action is okay. You might as well skip this movie.

2 years 8 months ago

oligneisti

Joyfully weird.

1 month 1 week ago

Siskoid

It's easy to tell The 13th Warrior was mangled by the studio, just from that opening laden with narration and brief shots that would have cost too much not to be full-blown scenes. I don't know what the original ending was like, but I do like Jerry Goldsmith's new score, so the changes weren't necessarily all bad. It does have problems with connective tissue and clarity, but overall, it's better than its reputation. Antonio Banderas plays a real-life Moorish poet who goes on a quest with a group of Vikings to defend a village from a tribe of animalistic men. He's a great observer figure, showing us the world of the Northmen through more civilized eyes - and it feels pretty legit, which is probably why it was alienating to preview audiences - but also getting his share of the action. In terms of that action, John McTiernan chooses immediacy over choreography and it works, keeping the mystery of the strange cannibals alive for as long as possible. At a greater length, we would feel the deaths of certain characters more, but we're unlikely to ever see the director's cut of a film that, rightly or wrongly, did so poorly (excepting the Justice League aberration).

2 years 7 months ago