Yet the pic has difficulty carrying a thought from one shot to the next. Pearl, he stacks every frame with layers of movement and texture from extreme foreground to deep, distant background.
Instead, Nispel trades in dense, sophisticated compositions. Gone is the spare poetry and arctic mysticism of Gaup’s original. Durand with the macabre imagery of contemporary fantasy artists, enhanced by the helmer’s decision to shoot against real British Columbia wilderness.
#Pathfinder 2007 movie#
As a follow-up to Nispel’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” remake, “Pathfinder” seems like sheer lunacy, the equivalent of Zack Snyder remaking Inuit chase movie “Atanarjuat the Fast Runner.” And yet, with a visual sense to rival Ridley Scott’s, Nispel ensures that every shot tells a story, mixing the meticulous landscape aesthetic of Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole and Asher B. Something is clearly afoot in Hollywood that projects about ancient Mayan, Spartan and Viking showdowns are being developed and released. The invaders’ gnarled snorts and guttural Icelandic dialogue strike a fearsome contrast to the mild-tempered, English-speaking natives. An ominous lot, they lumber about in silhouette like the dark Orcs from Ralph Bakshi’s “Lord of the Rings” cartoons, while Renee April’s detailed costumes - all horns and skulls and metal scales - evoke the more recent live-action trilogy. While Urban strains to carry the movie, it is the monstrous Vikings who actually prove most compelling. Urban spends most of the movie wearing little more than a leather loincloth, though editors Jay Friedkin and Glen Scantlebury seem to be working overtime cutting around his bulky but sub-Spartan physique. Story opens at the end of a failed first expedition as a lone Wampanaog Indian woman discovers a frightened young orphan in the belly of a smoldering Norse “dragon ship.” She takes him home, where he is accepted into the tribe.įifteen years later, the invaders return, only now, the abandoned young man has grown into “Lord of the Rings” and “Xena: Warrior Princess” veteran Karl Urban, an oddly proportioned action hero whose Hugh Jackman-like facial features sit perched atop a beefcake frame. Permitting herself considerable creative license, screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis imagines what might have stopped Vikings from settling in North America.
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