Beowolf (poem) vs. 13th Warrior (movie)

Rating: 8/10 (17 October 2005)

I really liked this movie because it is not set in present tense, it makes it unique in many ways. This movie has a lot of thing in common with the poem Beowolf because they both are based on good vs. evil and how good always comes out winning. In the poem Beowolf, Beowolf is called to come save the towns people from a man eating creature where as the movie the 13th warrior, Antonio is just riding around and happens to become the 13th warrior and told that he has to go fight a war with the monster and his mother. There is a fortune teller in the movie that predicts who is going to live and who is going to die for the war to come unlike in the poem where no one can know what is going to happen, you just know what is going right then. There is so much action in this movie and it is something you just have to see to believe! I really recommend this movie to anyone who likes action and suspense. The action scenes in this movie are so realistic which makes the movie even better, and it is playing out what happened in the poem. It brings the poem to life! As the warriors are riding around following clues to the monster they learn many things about each other and Antonio eventually learns their language and is able to talk to them and understand everything they say. In the bar scene when Antonio finds out that he was chosen to become the 13th warrior he was surprised and he didn't know how to react and what he was going to do but he learned fast. When they found all those bodies all torn up in that house, it was so realistic and it really got you thinking about what is going to happen to them and you want to keep watching to find out. By the end of the movie everyone is glad that the warriors saved the day and everything went back to normal. This movie is one of the greatest movies of all time!