The number of warriors should have remained at twelve.

Rating: 3/10 (1 September 1999)

This movie totally sucked. I mean it was one of the worst this year. If I wasn't with four other people, I would have left long before the movie was over. The only redeeming quality to the movie was the graphic depictions of beheadings, and other such violence. I almost fell asleep. This is coming from a person who tries to find something to like in every movie, especially aggressive movies. (Check my list all the good movies are aggressive toward something from social values to just plain tension, plus they are semi-unique.)
Plot: The reluctant dragon strikes again. Bandaras falls in love with a shiek's mistress and then is banished. He finds the Huns(?) and must fight with them because the 13th warrior cannot be one of them. How stupid is that. The beginning is very circumstantial. How convenient that he arrives the night before the messenger for help does. How convenient that the 13th must not be one of them. Then they fight eaters of the dead. They look like bears, but they ride horses, and are really people.

Violence: Awesome. The best part of the whole movie. It has several graphic beheadings. I would like to make a montage of the fighting scenes, and skip the rest of the movie. Blood spurts from necks and heads are carried off. I sat on the edge of my seat for those parts. My mind slept for the rest of the movie.
Script: Awful. I have seen better dialogue written on bathroom stalls. The best lines are in the previews, and they are not even that good. I could not believe that audacity of the film-makers to make this bad of a movie. Plus, who would be able to pick up a whole new language without a dictionary or knowing one single word. It is quite impossible.
Acting: As bad as the script. I guess I should not have gone to this movie considering that Antonio has not made a good movie yet!! Desperado was overdone, Assassins was overlong. Everybody else was bad too.
This movie was not even entertaining. Beware, do not go see this. You will suffer. Anything with this many coincidences cannot be good. Go see the Sixth Sense. Rent a classic. Hell, go see an Adam Sandler movie, but do not see this movie...Unless very small amounts of completely graphic violence can hold our attention. 3/10