The aspects were there, it just didn't work

Rating: 4/10 (17 January 2002)

Normally if you would have heard the contents of what the 13th Warrior was made of you would have expected a decent movie. Not a brilliant one but a good entertaining movie....
Now this movie had the potency of being such a movie but it just never got there....An Arab meets a group of Vikings by coincidence and right at that time there is a call for help cause people from the north are attacked by pure evil......They need as the title tells 13 warriors to fight the threat. The Arab, Antonio Banderas, is chosen to help them out.
The story line was predictable but that doesn't mean it has to fail....but the feeling of "wow this is entertainment just never started". The movie gave me the feeling that they insinuated more then that they worked out....u have a love affair, intrigue possibilities, great battles but instead of going deeper on that they just merely touched the surface of the story...
To summarise: this is an entertaining movie but they just cut half of the storyline away......No need to see this one!!!