The 13th Warrior

"Relentlessly silly, but with some pleasure to be had from the grungy Valhalla-charged babble (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" 

"Heavily influenced by Kurosawa's samurai pictures, the battles (...) are impressively staged on locations in British Columbia (...) But the picture doesn't bring to life a remote time the way Franklin Schaffner's 'The War Lord' does eleventh-century Normandy" 

"Instead of beginning with a good story and then adding f/x as needed, it apparently began with f/x and then the story was shoehorned into the pauses in the action (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)" 

"Think of 'The 13th Warrior' as Akira Kurosawa's 'The Seven Samurai' jacked on amphetamines. (...) It's why the film qualifies as the summer's primo guilty pleasure. It's red meat for the soul." 

"If the juiciest bouts of professional wrestling on television leave you feeling unfulfilled and pining for the primal howls of fight - to - the - death combat, 'The 13th Warrior' just might be the answer to your prayers." 

"Where 'The 13th Warrior' works best is in creating an atmosphere of totemic paganism in the mysterious, mist-enshrouded northern forest"