Eminently watchable

Rating: 7/10 (25 December 2001)

This is a cut above your typical adventure movie. This is a tale about 13 Warriors sent to defend a Viking village from an ominous and mythical threat that `cannot be named'. Antonio Banderas plays the 13th Warrior, a banished Arab poet cum ambassador who gets drafted into the expedition declaiming all the while... "I am NOT a warrior"
The movie is also interesting in that he's the lone Muslim amid this sea of Valhalla spouting Vikings. Add in the bear cult of their mysterious foes and this movie is an interesting from a comparative religions sense as well.