PATHFINDER tells the story of a young Viking boy left behind by his people in North America (which the Vikings had visited hundreds of years before Columbus). A stranger in a strange land, the boy is raised by a tribe of American Indians – the very people the Vikings had sworn to destroy. When Vikings again storm the eastern shores, waging a barbaric campaign, they slaughter the tribe that adopted the young man. Now age 25, he wages a violent personal war to stop the Viking’s trail of death and destruction.


Karl Urban aside, I can't figure out what the draw of this movie is supposed to be, and the trailer certainly doesn't help much. Vikings attack indians and leave behind one of their own, resulting in what... bloodthirsty indians? I felt like I had seen a trailer for this movie before - as Terrence Malick's The New World and we all know how that stinker turned out (quite literally in Japan).

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