Review of Pathfinder (2007) by Carl W — 11 Jul 2008

A will run you through the production process of this film.

Student - "Hey mister production company. We got this wicked idea, Vikings are cool and nasty right? Indians are peacful nature worshipping right?Wouldn't it be great if they had a fight?!".

Mr Producer "Yeah okay guys sounds great. But we need something more. Here have a bit of dollar go and develop it and come back to us.".

Student - "Screw that I'm taking this modest amount of money and making a blockbuster.Yipeeey!".

It seems that the first thing they did with this film was spend all the budget on some pretty impressive set's and costume's and then realised they had nothing left.

Storyboards? Pah. All we need is some lame backstory that gives us a reason to move from every cliched environment to have fights in.Swamps. Snow. Caves. Mountains.All checked.

Cameraman? Bahhh lets just get some guy to shoot the battles really close up to give sense of excitement and viscerality beacuse....

Choreographer?....left him at home.

Editor? Employ some half arsed student, they will be greatful to cobble together the locations to make a narrative.

What are we missing? aha! Actors! - hey we got no money so lets hire monkey's. We can pay them peanuts.

The result is this review.

It is a shame because very fleetingly (we are talking millisecenonds!!!) you catch a glimpse of everything coming together and you realise that it should have been wicked.