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	PlanetPapers - Beowulf Vs.The 13th Warrior
		Such as, Ahmed and his men were attacked by the cannibalistic warriors in the in the large hut; and they had fought for their lives trying to defeat the leader of the pack, forcing the cannibals back to their caves where they arose.
		In “The 13th Warrior” Ahmed is and his men are sent to murder the cannibals’ mother, just as Beowulf did Grendals mother.
		In “The 13th Warrior” the men are to fight the evil because the barbarians are selfish minded, and overruling; and want to take over all the cities for themselves.
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	DVD Review - The 13th Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Beautifully staged and photographed, "The 13th Warrior" is a movie that was widely overlooked at the box office, but it is now available on DVD from Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
		But the bones foretell that the rescuers will need the help of a 13th warrior, one that is not one of them, and soon Ahmed finds himself fighting side-by-side with a group of men he doesn’t know or understand.
		At its heart, "The 13th Warrior" is nothing but a showcase for violent bloodshed that convinces through the fact that its thrills keep viewers in its grip from the beginning to the end.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_13th_warrior.shtml (987 words)

	Horrordvds.com - The 13th Warrior DVD review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		However, the 13th Warrior must be an outsider and not a Northman.
		The film uses very natural lighting, which gives The 13th Warrior a more authentic feel, but the downside to this is some of the battles that take place at night are dark and it is hard to see what is going on and who is doing what.
		Fans of hack and slash movies like Conan the Barbarian or Braveheart should give The 13th Warrior a try, it may not be as good as the aforementioned films, but it is an effective action film directed by one of the experts of the genre John McTiernan.
	www.horrordvds.com /reviews/n-z/13w (1124 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of The 13th Warrior (1999)
		The 13th Warrior, John McTiernan's adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel "Eaters of the Dead," was hampered by delays which caused countless release dates to be set over the course of more than a year, and at one time it was actually rumored to be headed for a straight-to-video release.
		The 13th Warrior has its share, but it's a much better film than you might guess, offering an engaging period piece about an Arab unwillingly recruited into a Viking warrior band to fight off an "evil force" afflicting their people.
		Once Banderas is recruited, The 13th Warrior gets down to business, and evolves from an Elizabeth prequel to a pleasant, slightly horrific (at least there's plenty of blood and implications, although not realizations, of a supernatural theme), gritty fantasy fest that could just as well have taken place on any world, at any time.
	www.classic-horror.com /reviews/13thwarrior.shtml (792 words)

	The 13th Warrior
		Warrior is basically The Seven Samurai set in a medieval fantasy land with Norse warriors and Antonio Bandaras, as an Arab poet named Ahmed, who is chosen to tag along as they go to save a village threatened by these weird bear guys.
		warrior because the fates called for a warrior who is not of the north.
		They are supposed to represent some very scary evil race of shadow warriors who kill their enemies and take their heads, while eating some of the rest.
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	The 13th Warrior Summary
		The 13th Warrior is a 1999 action film based on Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead, directed by John McTiernan and an uncredited Crichton, and starring Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan and Vladimir Kulich as Buliwyf (Beowulf).
		The 13th Warrior was the third-worst box-office bomb in history, losing over $123 million (behind Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Treasure Planet).
		The 13th Warrior is a novel about an Arab messenger from a king in Baghdad who is sent with a large party to teach a Viking king about Islam.
	www.bookrags.com /The_13th_Warrior (2403 words)

	The 13th Warrior
		According to Norse legend, the number thirteen is lucky, and in order to succeed in their mission, they must have thirteen warriors, one of whom must be foreign.
		Buliwyf (Vladimir Kulich from Firestorm and Crash) is the leader of the warriors.
		The 13th Warrior is another one of those movies where the book is better than the movie.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/13th_warrior.html (686 words)

	The 13th Warrior review
		The 13th Warrior—based on Beowulf—is the transposition of Akiro Kurosawa's Seven Samourai during the Viking era.
		The 13th Warrior is in fact nothing else than a big budget action flick, where one fight scene follows the other until a facile victorious ending.
		The 13th Warrior is obviously bad, while it could have done something better with its premise (what the first two adaptations did).
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/13thwar.html (443 words)

	The 13th Warrior
		The 13th Warrior is LOOSELY based on the epic poem "Beowulf" and accounts of an Arab poet's encounter with the Norse.
		Fahdlan encounters a Norse clan and, despite his disgust with the "unclean" people, finds himself the prophesized 13th man on a quest to help a Norse kingdom plagued by an unmentionable evil that comes with the fog, takes people's heads and gnaws on their dead flesh.
		For instance, although Fahdlan is supposed to be a 10th-century Arabic poet, in one scene a Norse warrior sports a 16th-century Spanish conquistador hat.
	www.rambles.net /13th_warrior.html (649 words)

	13th Warrior review
		"The 13th Warrior," directed by John McTiernan and based on Crichton's "Eaters of the Dead," isn't a classic.
		Quickly, 13 strapping warriors, led by their king, volunteer for the quest; but the seer admonishes that the 13th warrior must not be from the Northlands.
		Along the way to the embattled kingdom, Ahmed goes from being the butt of the band's jokes to being a respected member of the cadre; he even manages to learn their language by a means that is delivered to the screen in a particularly imaginative way.
	triviana.com /film/tfilm/13thwar.htm (566 words)

	the 13th warrior
		Directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) and based on Michael Crichton's story Eaters of the Dead, The 13th Warrior is the tale of a young Arab nobleman, Ibn Fadlan (Banderas), who is banished by his sultan for an act of sexual indiscretion, and made ambassador to remote European lands.
		Inspired most obviously by Beowulf (with some influence from Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai), the premise of The 13th Warrior is terrific, but the execution falls far short of the story's possibilities.
		In the end, whatever its faults, The 13th Warrior does have some fine moments, and for anyone with an interest in the genre, this film is certainly worth seeing.
	www.renaissancemagazine.com /movies/warr.html (325 words)

	The 13th Warrior
		A strong B+, "The 13th Warrior" is a medieval adventure picture climaxing in the big good fight.
		Antonio plays an Arab poet/scholar banished from his homeland who bumps into a boatload of Viking-types from the North just as they decide to help out a village that is being massacred by an evil so bad, you can't even say its name.
		Once on the path to the village, Banderas listens keenly to the Northmen as they gruffly mock each other and especially him in their own language.
	rossanthony.com /1/13thwarrio.shtml (243 words)

	Essay Depot - Beowulf Vs. The 13th Warrior
		In “The 13th Warrior” groups of men fight the evil which is in the form of men dressed up as bears, possibly to seem more frightening, and their mother, who is an evil witch.
		Beowulf was supercilious unlike the men in “The 13th Warrior.” Ahmed and his comrades were not offered money or any reward; they did not, necessarily, want to be remembered for their heroic deeds at Herot; they just wanted to help save the villagers.
		The similarities in the movie “The 13th Warrior” and in the epic poem Beowulf outweigh the differences that the two incredible pieces of fiction have.
	www.essaydepot.com /essayme/2027/index.php (833 words)

	The 13th Warrior
		The story begins with an over produced and over acted scene of people yelling and an "oracle" determining that 13 warriors were needed to defeat a band of villains plaguing a northern area.
		Quickly 12 warriors volunteer and the "oracle" professes that the 13th warrior must not be of Viking blood.
		The premise of animal like warriors who eat their dead sounded pretty good, but, the subplots (if you can catch them), the unrealistic lighting of the battles, and even the gore are all substandard.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/13thwarrior.html (421 words)

	The 13th Warrior
		On his journeys he associates with a ragtag group of Vikings who are traveling back to their homeland to confront a nefarious threat that's cloaked in such superstition they're forbidden to speak its name.
		It is prophesied by a witch doctor that 13 warriors must confront the evil; however, the 13th chosen man must not come from the north.
		It's not often that you crave for a movie to be longer, but The 13th Warrior could've benefited from fleshing out of its subplots and characters.
	www.unc.edu /~gneville/movies/details/0.html (269 words)

	DVD.net : The 13th Warrior - DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Accompanying the warriors to their homeland, he assists them in the support of an aging king in the defense of his people; defense against an ancient evil and supernatural terror that is decimating the local population...
		The 13th Warrior is based on the novel Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton - the movie title being changed by Touchstone in post-production (a real mistake in my opinion).
		But honestly The 13th Warrior is immensely enjoyable even after the 13th, or indeed the 30th, viewing.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1397 (1100 words)

	'The 13th Warrior' (R)
		Antonio Banderas is very persuasive as Ibn Fahdlan, who joins a Viking detail bent on defeating a tribe of marauding bear-men, who seem to be part beast.
		When a soothsayer determines that 13 men must defeat the enemy, including a 13th warrior from another land, Ibn Fahdlan takes up the sword.
		Banderas's Spanish lilt effectively suggests the foreigner status he gets among the warriors as he tries to understand their ways and impress them as a soldier.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/movies/reviews/13thwarriorhowe.htm (186 words)

	The 13th Warrior-Info & Review
		Sent away as an appointed emissary to a distant land, Ibn is traveling by caravan with his mentor and manservant,Melchisidek (Omar Sharif), when he meets a band of warriors Ibn considers the rogues to be colorful but crude, and he is skeptical of their description of a mysterious enemy that is plaguing their homeland.
		Based on Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the dead,The 13th Warrior is an Action/Adventure movie starring Antanio Banderas,Vladimir Kulich,Omar Sharif...Read about the rest of the cast here What's interesting about The 13th Warrior is that it purports to be a deconstruction of the legend of Beowulf.
		The 13th Warrior argues that "Grendel" is not actually one creature, but a host of costumed men who assault under cover of darkness, pretending to be fearsome, demonic apparitions.
	www.geocities.com /darkdaze18/info.html (574 words)

	The 13th Warrior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The novel upon which the movie is based is loosely inspired by Richard Frye's translation of Ibn Fadlan's non-fictional account of his travels up the river Volga in the tenth century.
		Buliwyf and the remaining 6 warriors track the Wendol back to their lair to uncover that they are in fact cannibals; whenever someone is killed the Wendol take the corpse back to their lair and feast upon it.
		The last remaining 5 warriors return to the village and prepare for a final battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_13th_Warrior (1057 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review: The 13th Warrior (1999)
		Now that "The 13th Warrior" has finally been released theatrically over two years after it was filmed, it's difficult to say how McTiernan's cut might have turned out, but I know this much: no matter how much was reshot and edited, there is no possible way this film could be anything other than stupefyingly horrendous.
		There isn't an act, scene, shot, or frame in "The 13th Warrior" that I could say I liked, which is no small feat to achieve considering that, even in my review for "Inspector Gadget," I mentioned I liked one cast member.
		"The 13th Warrior" is the most depressing cinematic experience to grace (or curse) the silver screen this year.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/t/99_13thwarrior.htm (713 words)

	13th Warrior
		The 13th Warrior fails to cash in on this valuable early investment.
		The DVD transfer of The 13th Warrior has a lovely contrast balance, providing ample light for grand shadow detail without blowing out brighter scenes.
		Jerry Goldsmith's somewhat bombastic chords are almost as ferocious as the warriors.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/13th_warrior.htm (631 words)

	The 13th Warrior (Soundtrack) by Jerry Goldsmitgh
		The music is mostly very loud - it is pretty much non-stop action from start to end, which frankly can be a little monotonous at times.
		Some more quiet, soft parts would have been a welcome addition...Overall, The 13th Warrior is a good action score.
		All artwork from The 13th Warrior is exclusive property of Varese Sarabande (c) 1999.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/13thwarrior.htm (579 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: THE 13TH WARRIOR review
		Only problem is, after just finishing The 13th Warrior, I have no frickin' idea what I just saw.
		Banderas gets picked as the 13th warrior sent off to fight by virtue of being the only guy from out of town when this war lottery takes place.
		There are some good set-pieces to be found in The 13th Warrior, but an incoherent story holds them all together and that tried my patience more than I would like it to.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/13thwarrior.htm (725 words)

	The 13th Warrior
		The Thirteenth Warrior (previously known as Eaters of the Dead) has been collecting dust on the studio shelves for well over a year now.
		The thirteenth warrior must not be a Northman...and Ahmed is the only one who fits the bill.
		The 13th Warrior is based on Michael Crichton's novel, Eaters of the Dead, and it stands out from the rest of his work only in the fact that it takes place in the past.
	www.cinematter.com /movie.php3?eod (536 words)

	CNN - Review: Battle-scarred '13th Warrior' - September 2, 1999
		There have been reports that parts of "The 13th Warrior" were shot by its co-producer, the Hollywood-powerful Michael Crichton.
		Crichton wrote the book that the movie is based on (that's where the original title came from) and he stepped in behind the camera to do whatever it is he thought he could do when he got there.
		An old crone prophesies that 13 warriors must be sent to kill the cannibals, who are referred to with a simple, grim nod because they're so evil you're not supposed to speak their name.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9909/02/review.13thwarrior/index.html (911 words)

	Movie Review:The 13th Warrior
		This vivid scene is from the recent movie "The 13th Warrior." Loosely based from Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead, the movie has a lot to offer Fantasy fans.
		He is a poet turned warrior who grows during the movie to appreciate the rough but noble Vikings and their culture.
		The leader of the warriors is a brave, tough fighter.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/fantasy_worlds/25308 (445 words)

	13TH WARRIOR
		He did not like the clan because of their lack of cleanliness, their disgusting love of sex, their underbathed women, or their strange rituals, for he believed there was only one true god.
		Sometime later, another viking from another Viking clan came from the North asking for the help of 13 warriors to help him fight in his homeland as a duty to another clan.
		IbnFadlan was chosen as The 13th Warrior and enlisted to travel with them.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/galaxyway/67/id33.htm (450 words)

	The Definitive 13th Warrior Page: Latest News
		Here you will find out all the latest info for 'The 13th Warrior.' If you have a scoop about this project please contact Craig or Bjørn Erik, and you will be credited for your contribution.
		About the 13th warrior: I saw it with 2 friends and they are ok with me: definitly not a good film!!!
		REVIEW #2: The 13th warrior was shown to the normal public on the 4th of July in Belgium at the 'American Movie Day'.
	www.hundland.com /13thWarrior/news.htm (1126 words)

	The 13th Warrior - Cincinnati.Com
		The 13th Warrior is one of those bad movies that you could kind of get attached to, if you’re in the mood for a dose of sword-swinging bloodshed with no thinking allowed.
		The swords swing and the blood flows like mead as a troop of Vikings are called home from a marauding trip to do battle with some evil force reputed to be flesh-eating demons.
		The Viking choose as their 13th man a young Moslem (Antonio Banderas) who was kicked out of Baghdad for falling in love with the wrong woman.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/13thwarrior.html (441 words)

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