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Summary: Why did Crichton change the end?
Review: The first hour of this film is top notch entertainment with fine performances from the cast and an interesting plot, but why did Michael Crichton re-shoot the final third of the film? john McTiernan was doing a great job with it and it was looking like it would be one of the best films of the year, and if McTiernan had shot it, I am sure it would have been. But Crichton wasn't happy with the final third and re-shot it himself. From there on you can tell the difference and the film deteriates into an unrealistic ending and a fairly obvious one at that. Crichton should learn to leave the shooting of films to the professionals.Apart from the final ending, a very good film.
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Summary: Umm... a plot please
Review: Ok so i come to watch a movie and what do i get, a lame excuse for hollywood. The acting was ok and the script sounded like a mix between french, german, spanish and english. I don't like to have to strain to here my movies. And as for the features... well lets just say it bit the dust. --This text refers to the DVD edition.
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Summary: This movie does a disservice to the legacy of the Northmen
Review: The 13th Warrior although fairly entertaining, does a major diluting to the rich and brutal pagan culture of the Vikings, much as the movie version of Whitefang wimped out on the true brutal version of Jack London's novel. Despite their small numbers and the fact that the Viking era only lasted approximatly 200 years; the Norsemen were the most feared and fearless warriors in history- this was mainly due to their bleak and apocalyptic religion (Odinism). This movie paints a cartoonish existence out of these great men from the far North. To best get a feel for the mentality of the ancient Scandinavians, listen to and learn the modern culture of Nordic Black Metal.
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Summary: Could have been a lot better
Review: The book was good, and the movie was good; but the movies could have been a bit longer, and go into more detail about certain things. There's no doubt why this film was a big flop: It isn't much of a movie. If you're looking for a good action/drama, it isn't here. If you're looking for a weak-storied, and weakly casted movie, but with lots of violence, this is it. The story of the movie itself could be a plot for another film: After years of "sitting on the shelf," the monster has arisen. I think we can all agree it should have been left on the shelf.
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Summary: Excellent and enjoyable
Review: I saw this movie in the theaters and was stunned at how good it was. I really liked it. It had adventure and swordfights, and an interesting if not complicated plot. There are times when you look at the screen and say "Wow, that scene is perfect. The camera work, the acting, everything is as good as it could possibly be." The 13th Warrior is a work of art in some ways, and is right up there with Conan the Barbarian as two of the best high adventure movies ever made. I completely recommend it
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Summary: Vikings Shmikings
Review: PLEASE, IF YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK THERE IS NO REASON TO SEE THIS MOVIE. YOU WILL ONLY TORTURE YOURSELF WONDERING WHY THE VIKINGS WERE PROTRAYED SO POORly. This movie sould be banned in Minnesota.
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Summary: don't bother with the edited version
Review: I don't know about the full-length, but this version was a terrible excuse for a movie. The idea was good, but the plotline was dissapointingly simple and the characters badly underdeveloped. Nor was it very realisitc. The movie fails to build up an emotional rage against the anatgonists, who are also simply created with depth. The fact that the directors copied real artifacts and ancient dwellings found in France and the Middle East shows their lack of originality. After two excuses for battles, the movie ends abruptly. It could have been much better.
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Summary: A too short of an adventure.
Review: We had not heard a thing about this movie, so when the family sat down to watch it, we had no preconcieved notions. We watched this movie bring this far away place, time and characters convincingly come to life. There where no irritating characters, without exception, these heroes you can root for. We could have watched another hour easily, it actually would have given the director more time to develop the characters and their relationships. As for the DVD aspect, the picture is crystal clear, the sound is excellent. Features? What Features?
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Summary: Very good but too short.
Review: I have just received & viewed my copy of this movie (DVD widescreen) I while I must agree with the 'professional' reviewer that too much was edited out, in reading some of the other reviews it seems that they missed that this movie is based on Michael Chrichton's book "Eaters Of The Dead", which is based on Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan's memoirs, i.e., it's based on a real story! Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan was (is?) a historical figure and while the movie may have simularities to other stories so does any other movie with the possible exception of "Being John Malkovich". The cinematography is great and the soundtrack phenomenal! It's just that in trying to get the time down and make it more of an action movie, they edited too much of the story out making it seem jerky in places.
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Summary: an entertaining flic
Review: First of all I hope we all realize that no one believes the "arab" learned norse in one night, just like the jouney did not take 2 days. Let us use our imaginations and also realize the director used the language transition to a) show a passage of time and b)create an action movie that did not need subtitles. Being out voted I ended up seeing this movie and was pleasantly suprised. Although I did not read EATERS OF THE DEAD, I have read BEOWOLF and the movie clearly showed the courage and fearlessness of these people. The 13th Warrior was exciting with good action scenes and cinemetography. I thought the acting was good although not readily known in the US, the actors did a splendid job bringing their characters to life. I was drawn into the story quite easily. They only negative remark I have is that it should have been longer. The story and the characters deserved additional time to be more fully developed.
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