Without a relatable or sympathetic character in its lineup, Pathfinder is a blunt object designed to beat the audience over the head with gore until even the most sensitive viewer is left yawning at the ugliness.

| Oct 16, 2018

Had the camera been a firing squad pointed towards its actors, their careers would have taken less damage.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 14, 2014

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2008

The fault here lies in the film's dead rhythm, which never lights the sparks necessary for an action film. The plot and action progress like an eroding lakeshore, but the energy and excitement are washed away in every scene.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 21, 2008

Pathfinder's main appeal will be to connoisseurs of gore, who will find no shortage of graphically rendered stabbings, shootings, smashings, severings and slicings.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Sep 22, 2007

Without anything more to offer, the choreographed carnage gets stale very quickly.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 22, 2007

Imagine a heavy metal album cover come suddenly to life and you pretty much have the measure of Pathfinder.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 22, 2007

Pathfinder is simultaneously action-packed and a total bore, a strange movie that never seems to move even though it consists of almost nothing but violence.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 22, 2007

The movie is filmed in a way that makes it seem like the camera has epilepsy and the color desaturation renders everything murky. Someone should remind director Marcus Nispel that there's a difference between making a music video and a feature film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 22, 2007

Never has an idea of such splendid nuttiness been so squandered to the god of neurotic style.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2007

The plot and action progress like an eroding lakeshore, but the energy and excitement are washed away in every scene.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 22, 2007

Metal heads will be in Valhalla; everyone else should find a different path.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2007

Gory but disappointing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2007

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think slow-motion is cool and those who do not. If you are of the former, I can recommend Pathfinder.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2007

All basic interest, to say nothing of excitement, is sapped whenever the big, brutal battle sequences come to a halt and inane dialogue takes over.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 12, 2007

What killed this film in the theater was the lack of plot.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 9, 2007

It's a movie that belies its title, showing neither a strong sense of direction nor the drive to do anything other than display a whole lot of slashing and stabbing.

Full Review | Original Score: 44/100 | Jul 22, 2007

For all its flaws, Pathfinder is a unique little action film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2007

Boasting a prettified brutality that rivals that of 300, Pathfinder also explores a similar theme, the manly pursuit of revenge at any cost.

Full Review | May 30, 2007