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The 13th Warrior

1999

John McTiernan

Antonio Banderas, Vladimir Kulich, Omar Sharif, Dennis Storhoi ...

5.7

23,971

Adventure. Action Year 922 A.D. An exiled ambassador far from his homeland, Ahmed (Banderas) comes across a fierce band of warriors who are being attacked by ferocious creatures legendary for devouring all living things in their path! And when an old fortune-teller warns the combatants that they are doomed to failure without a 13th warrior, Ahmed is given no choice but to join their battle and help conquer the mysterious enemy

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Relentlessly silly, but with some pleasure to be had from the grungy Valhalla-charged babble (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Instead of beginning with a good story and then adding f/x as needed, it apparently began with f/x and then the story was shoehorned into the pauses in the action (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"Think of 'The 13th Warrior' as Akira Kurosawa's 'The Seven Samurai' jacked on amphetamines. (...) It's why the film qualifies as the summer's primo guilty pleasure. It's red meat for the soul."	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"The most unexpectedly audacious, exhilarating, wildly creative adventure thriller I've seen in ages."	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"If the juiciest bouts of professional wrestling on television leave you feeling unfulfilled and pining for the primal howls of fight - to - the - death combat, 'The 13th Warrior' just might be the answer to your prayers."	NEU
United States	Bob Graham SFGATE	"Where 'The 13th Warrior' works best is in creating an atmosphere of totemic paganism in the mysterious, mist-enshrouded northern forest"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[A] bloody but anemic story"	NEG
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"Heavily influenced by Kurosawa's samurai pictures, the battles (...) are impressively staged on locations in British Columbia (...) But the picture doesn't bring to life a remote time the way Franklin Schaffner's 'The War Lord' does eleventh-century Normandy"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Foreman New York Post	"A deeply pleasurable, old-fashioned blood-'n'-guts adventure film."	POS
United States	Jay Carr Boston Globe	"About everything is big in' The 13th Warrior' except the writing, which is microscopic."	NEU

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