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

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

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

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

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

| 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

Pathfinder's moody, muddy look is courtesy of music-video director Marcus Nispel, who doesn't distinguish between people and tree trunks when it comes to emotional content.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 18, 2007

There is almost nothing better than a completely terrible monstrosity that's so rotten it's hysterical. This, however, is not that movie. Pity, because maybe if it had been I might have actually had something semi-interesting to talk about.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 18, 2007

This latest bit of historical balder-dash stands in direct defiance of proven action-movie formulas, trusting its brutal concept and striking visuals to overcome a lack of star power.

| Apr 13, 2007

As dim and dank as a power failure in a peepshow, Pathfinder is Apocalypto without the laughs or 300 without the muscular visuals and elevating dialogue.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 13, 2007

The official Pathfinder Web site is far more interesting than the movie itself, and you'll get better history lessons from the Vikings of Minnesota.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 13, 2007

No more than a minute into this, and it becomes obvious that the next 98 are going to be trouble.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 13, 2007

The end of the road almost makes this a path worth taking, but most audience members will probably be too bored by the time the movie finally gets there to really care.

Full Review | Apr 13, 2007

Strives to be a latter-day Conan the Barbarian.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 13, 2007

The movie takes us on a journey to an ugly, contentious period in our misty, ancient past -- all the way back to four months ago, when Apocalypto came out.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 13, 2007

After the first 1,000 or so beheadings, impalements and severed limbs, Pathfinder's slash may just induce sleep.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2007

All grunting, all goring, the witless action flick Pathfinder has little to recommend it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 13, 2007

Dialogue is a low priority in this film, which has less plot than most video games.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 13, 2007

There's a fan's sincere hokeyness about Pathfinder that makes the experience relatively painless, in spite of the number of people who get tortured, decapitated or dismembered.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2007

Though Pathfinder was completed before 300 and the equally artful and brutal Apocalypto, it can still do nothing but slog along in their footprints.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2007

Here's hoping Pathfinder II is a straight-to-video- game release.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 13, 2007