Fifteen years later, the boy is a man (Karl Urban) whom the Wampanoag call "Ghost" because of his complexion. Over the objections of several tribal leaders, who fear this child of "the dragon men" will one day prove true to his blood and turn against them, the defiant woman adopts the pale, fair-haired child and raises him as her own. One afternoon, a woman (Michelle Thrush) from the native Wampanoag tribe stumbles across the abandoned hull of a wrecked Norse vessel among the shackled corpses on board she discovers a young boy (Burkely Duffield), the son of a fierce Viking warrior who was been left behind after refusing to participate in the carnage. Six hundred years before Christopher Columbus arrived in the "New World," Viking marauders routinely raided the shores of northern North America, brutally pillaging native villages and mercilessly slaughtering the "savages" whose spears and arrows were no match for the armored Norsemen's steel and steeds. But it's undone by a murky palette, silly horror-movie cliches, dumb dialogue and a confusing climactic sequence. Loosely based on the 1987 Academy Award-nominated Norwegian film PATHFINDER (OFELAS), Marcus Nispel's brawny period adventure could have been an impressive-looking historical action adventure along the lines of APOCALYPTO or even 300.
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