The 13th Warrior

example when men were realy men.....good qualite of acting,,good story,,,,educational,,,and mysterious,,,,visual effect were great,,,i`m glad that the director brought new faces and also very strong futures men,,to do this job... Full review

This is a decent flick and made me remember that Antonio is really a good actor and can hold a film on his own. There are a few gruesome scenes though even by todays standards.... Full review

this movie is pretty good. Its not great but its not bad either. It is one of those that you enjoy while youre watching it but you wouldnt want to watch it again for a long time. Antonio Banderes did a... Full review

Apparently, almost every filmmaker in existence has no clue how to fix the boring scenes of the scripts they're handed, but the scenes in this movie that make you feel like your blood is actually flowing are pretty decent. There could've... Full review

This movie is great if you are high on testosterone, just like typical chick flicks catch women even when everyone knows the story, and the only excitement is how its retold for the particular film. So this is for guys, its... Full review

This movie is a great story, and fantastic fight sequences. But over all it was the story that drew me into the movie. I loved the idea of Ibn being drawn into a strange and alien world where he was very... Full review

Eight years has not dimmed my appreciation for this wonderful action movie. Great casting. Great acting. And the story line and direction were up there. Making me watch this one many times. Hopefully you will too. Banderas is a talent not... Full review

Really, I saw no point in this movie. An Arab is picked up to help a band of vikings to defend a village against a tribe of primitive but agressive assasins, that's all. He does not really contribute, he certainly does... Full review

This was the first time I bought a movie without watching it at a theater or renting it.The movie sucked so bad.It was very slow and watered down.The fighting scenes were too few,dark, and had alot of tight close-ups.Narnia was way... Full review

This has a really cool storyline. But besides that, all there is an extremely short war film that's way too Disney-fied even for an R. If you have to see it, wait for it on T.V., where it won't cost you... Full review

Eric's Bad Movies:....The language barrier is there to make the story seem more realistic.....Here are my main complaints about The 13th Warrior , starring Antonio Banderas as a 10th-century Arab Muslim who goes on an adventure with Norse Vikings:....It might sound like I'm glossing over the climax.... ... Full Review

"A website to the detriment of good film" ... Full Review

By dint of its subject matter, blood and gore may well be the film's prime leitmotifs, but McTiernan's calculated mayhem aspires to grander dimensions. Though you won't find The Thirteenth Warrior listed on any critic's top ten list or alongside "date movie" titles, as far as medieval action adventure epics are concerned, they don't come more proficient than this one. ... Full Review

Ironically, McTiernan may wind up being the sole beneficiary of the film's belated release.....reworked (by some accounts even re-shot) by producer Michael Crichton after the acrimonious departure of director John McTiernan.....Technically, the film's credentials are more solid, highlighted by the superlative work of cinematographer Peter Menzies Jr..... ... Full Review

Great movie for the trouble the filmmakers went through to make it.....Crichton picked up the challenge set for him by a friend that believed Beowulf was a boring story;....However, while critics are notably luke-warm about it, I'm very fond of The 13th Warrior.....a movie that never got any studio support that could've been more successful.....Crichton believed that Beowulf was a great story.... ... Full Review

Antonio Banderas plays Ahmad ibn Fadlan, an exiled Arab sent north as an ambassador. Finding a Viking colony on a riverbank, he is pulled into a rescue mission back in the Vikings' homeland. ... Full Article

This week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com comes from a time when they were trying to make Antonio Banderas a big-time movie star. ... Full Article

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 This week's edition of Eric's Bad Movies at Film.com comes from a time when they were trying to make Antonio Banderas a big-time movie star. ... Full Article

Warrior," based on the Michael Crichton novel "Eaters of the Dead." There are a number of striking similarities between the two in plot lines, adversaries faced by the protagonist, and the ideologies behind both works. ... Full Article

The 13th Warrior (1999) Directed by John McTiernan. From the book Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton. In the beginning.... Michael Crichton was challenged to make Beowulf interesting for the Modern Audience . ... Full Article

AB: It's interesting. No, because I saw the character- - I mean, at the beginning, when I first got on this two years ago, they said to me the guy was thought to be French, kind of a D'artagnan, from... ... Full Article