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The 13th Warrior
a.k.a. The Thirteenth Warrior Director: John McTiernan Cast: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhoi, Vladimir Kulich

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  • DVD Release Date: 01/18/2000
  • Original Release: 1999
  • Rating: Rated R

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Theatrical trailer; French-language track; 5.1 Surround; Widescreen (2.35:1), enhanced for 16x9 televisions

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Side #1 --
1. Opening Credits/Things Were Not Always Thus [:11]
2. A Messenger From the North [3:44]
3. Traveling With the 12 [3:44]
4. In Hrothgar's Realm [3:37]
5. Carnage at the Farmhouse [:14]
6. Council in the Great Hall [5:44]
7. Wendol Attack [:07]
8. Building Defenses [5:32]
9. Olga's Warning [4:04]
10. Setting an Example [2:12]
11. The Fireworm Is Roused [3:00]
12. The Wisdom of an Old Crone [3:55]
13. In Search of the Wendol [:21]
14. In the Bowels of the Earth [4:25]
15. Buliwyf's Fate Is Sealed [1:12]
16. The Wendol Return for Vengeance [3:35]
17. End Credits [:14]

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Editorial Reviews

A red-blooded adventure film enhanced by supernatural elements, The 13th Warrior is packed with ultra-heroic exploits and bone-crunching action. Based on Michael Crichton's 1974 novel Eaters of the Dead, it stars Antonio Banderas as Ahmed Ibn Fahdalan, an Arab poet traveling with a small band of Vikings during the 10th century. Ridiculed at first by the lusty Norsemen, Ahmed ends up becoming a trusted comrade and participates in their bloody battles against a tribe of flesh-eating savages who supposedly possess the spirits of bears. Director John McTiernan (The Thomas Crown Affair) doesn't spend a lot of time on character development, but what the film lacks in that area, it makes up for in the richness of its atmospherics and the explosive energy of its battle scenes. McTiernan brings expertly to life the dark and menacing world of the Vikings, while Banderas conveys the dread of a sensitive man surrounded by unrelenting gloom. The film really springs to life once the carnage commences: Action lovers will find it an uncompromisingly graphic but ultimately exhilarating experience. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble

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Awesome Movie!by Izy

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March 15, 2009: This movie is truly amazing and unforgettable. Once you see it, it's a must have in your movie collection. Best way to put this movie is it's another "The Mummy" movie. Wish there was a sequel.

They actually did freshen their morning face in a bowl of watered spit!by Anonymous

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February 26, 2009: After watching this movie again, I am always left wondering how it just seems lost in some un-known void of our cinematic appreciation. Though this movie has its small lapses, it is very entertaining and still incredibly historically accurate and also so faithful to the book Michael crichten wrote by adapting a 9th century manuscript that is one of the first written works depicting the "Northmen". Yes, I know that Critchten produced this movie....thats seems to the only way to keep the "money people" from polluting the "creative peoples" work in Hollywood. Back when this first came out I almost puked when I heard that A. Banderos was in it as I thought it was just going to be perverted into an action vehicle for him. And was I wrong. This is when I think I first started having respect for him as a real actor, because that is just what he does in this movie, ACT. His performance from poet to warrior is very unexpected and understated. I was raised on The Longships, and The Vikings of the 1960's, And it took years to learn how this was such Hollywood garbage. Like all the other stereo-types we embrace. Do you want Wham-Bam fantasy...go rent the atrocity Pathfinder, but if you want to get away from the Hagar-The-Horrible BS of Horned helmets and such, I highly recommend this movie. I'll end this by admitting that I am an American of (mostly) Norwegion lineage, and throughout the decades I have just been so disappointed on how come a good "Viking" movie is so hard to come out of Hollywood. PS - And the word Viking simply means "Raider" and is used about as often and as accurately as people who put horns on helmets. The Northmen DID NOT LOOK LIKE HAGAR-THE-HORRIBLE!!!!

I Also Recommend: Beowulf & Grendel, The 300 Spartans, Vikings: Journey to New Worlds, Shichinin no samurai, Beowulf.


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