The 13th Warrior: Critic Reviews

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  • Jeff Millar Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)
    The film is fascinating to watch, but I can hardly say what it's about, other than people killing each other.
    Full Review » 7 years ago
  • Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)
    The 13th Warrior is a kick in the 10th century.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)
    63
    Loaded with potential, it's puzzlingly overblown and distant, as if its huge budget were an albatross around its neck.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)
    Michael Crichton's story is underdeveloped and narrow in range, resulting in a tale more curious for its odd confluence of elements than for their edifying deployment.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)
    63
    A big cathartic blast.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com
    25
    "The 13th Warrior" is a brazen attempt to brand Antonio Banderas as an A-lister with a C-grade script. Failure attends.
    Full Review » 3 years ago
  • Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com
    38
    Jerry Goldsmith's rousing score exhibits more personality than any of the actors--or anything else in the film, for that matter.
    Full Review » 3 years ago
  • Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound
    50
    Mr. Crichton may have found the perfect venue for his particular brand of character underdevelopment.
    Full Review » 5 years ago
  • Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid
    75
    Shelved for over a year and probably heavily edited, it's better than it could have been.
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • Geoff Andrew Time Out
    At its best, this achieves the beauty and grandeur of a Kurosawa epic -- at its worst, however, it feels like a Python remake of The Vikings.
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • Chris Gore Film Threat
    60
    If you're in the mood to watch heads, arms and other appendages getting chopped off, this movie is for you.
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
    75
    It harks back to the late 1950s when people actually made movies about Vikings and other seafaring heroes named Sinbad and Jason.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Brian Mckay eFilmCritic.com
    80
    An entertaining and serviceable adaptation. Dennis Storhoi delivers an awesome performance. Weak aspects of story made up for by great action.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • John R. McEwen Film Quips Online
    90
    Although the subject matter is not too pleasant and the gore is turned up to 11, Crichton's film is an excellent Nordic war story.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Jeff Vice Deseret News, Salt Lake City
    38
    The film is based on Eaters of the Dead, possibly the worst novel Michael Crichton has ever written, and this film isn't even a passable adaptation.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Wade Major Boxoffice Magazine
    40
    For fans of the genre, it's an inexorably primal exercise almost like cinematic steroids: qualitatively lacking, if not harmful, yet superficially irresistible.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena
    60
    A sensacao que fica, ao final da projecao, e a de que vimos um filme vazio - e sobre o personagem errado. E o que e pior: no qual nada acontece.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice
    The screenplay effectively communicates the cross-cultural tensions between the Arabs, the Vikings, and the pagan Wendols.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Blake French NutzWorld
    50
    everything is first rate except the characters and the story
    Full Review » 11 years ago
  • Andrew Howe eFilmCritic.com
    50
    Mediocrity should never be encouraged.
    Full Review » 11 years ago
  • Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3BlackChicks Review
    20
    Stay home and watch the WWF. The only difference is; they don't fight with swords
    Full Review » 11 years ago
  • Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope
    42
    The movie itself is unfulfilling. It just hangs there, like the aftertaste of stale beer.
    Full Review » 11 years ago
  • Maitland McDonagh TV Guide's Movie Guide
    60
    Murky, all - but - impossible to follow battle sequences.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Mac Verstandig Moviereviews.org
    The 13th Warrior reeks so badly of melodrama and poor acting that it carries a worst scent than a canine's least appetizing residue.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Citysearch
    The key performances are strong and the sets well-realized, but a spotty script and an awkward anticlimax might have you pining for Bruce Willis' next modern-day disaster-blaster.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
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