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"Hagar the Horrible would rather spend a night at home with his wife than watch Pathfinder, a mostly silent and shallow remake of a 1987 movie nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar. Just as Ghost (Karl Urban) searches for his identity, director Marcus Nispel’s narrative voice wanders aimlessly, haunted by his past. Having composed several hit music videos from the 1980s for bands like C&C Music Factory and Janet Jackson, Nispel’s colorless and choppy edits rob viewers of swordplay while the lack of character development reduces Ghost to a vengeful, static and unbelievable love interest of Starfire (Moon Bloodgood), who I immediately recognized as Korean. I was tempted to call this review Dances with Vikings but I thought better of it when I realized that wouldn’t be fair to Dances with Wolves, which was actually good. Nispel borrows a mélange of scenes from other famous action movies. Ghost, sets booby traps and erupts from the water to cut a Viking i ... " [More]