Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Length: 1h 37m 8s
Director: Michael CrichtonJohn McTiernan
Tagline: Fear reigns.
Plot outline: In AD 922, Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Vikings to the barbaric North. Ibn Fadlan is appalled by the Vikings customs-- their wanton sexuality, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. And then he learns the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that slaughters the Vikings and devours their flesh. Summary written by {surge@discoverynet.com} An arab (Antonio Banderas) accompanies a band of Northmen in a quest to destroy the Wendol. Based on the book Eaters of the dead, which is a playful version of the Anglo-saxon epic poem Beowulf. Summary written by Zack Fien {lennon@execpc.com} Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan is sent to the barbaric north as an emissary, because he fell in love with the wrong woman. In AD 922, this usually meant goodbye forever. Shortly after the party ran into exploring Vikings and befriended them, a young boy reaches the camp to call the warriors home: The Wendol, creatures of the Mist, have started attacking their homeland, killing and eating everyone in their way. The oracle forces a thirteenth warrior to accompany the Vikings, but this must not be a man from the north. Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who quickly is nicknamed Eban, first does not feel comfortable with the strange men of the north, but when he finds out that the Wendol really exist, he bravely fights alongside the Vikings in a battle that can't be won. Summary written by Julian Reischl {julian.reischl@usa.net}
Comment: This is a review of only the first half of the "13th Warrior" because that's all I saw before I turned it off. Antonio Banderas was an Arab envoy, recruited in the land of the Vikings as the 13th warrior to go and deal with the flesh-eaters. I didn't like the characters, nor the premise, nor the photography. So, I don't think I'll ever see the second half. Rating certainly less than 5 of 10.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
Country: USA
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Subtitels: No ()
DVDs: 1
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| Actors: | ||
| Antonio Banderas | as | Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad |
| Vladimir Kulich | as | Buliwyf/The 1st Warrior |
| Dennis Storhøi | as | Herger the Joyous |
| Daniel Southern | as | Edgtho the Silent |