The Valhalla of Eyecandy

Rating: 9/10 (4 September 1999)

"The 13th Warrior" is not a perfect movie -- it starts off a bit slow and some of the plot elements are just too far-fetched, even for the genre -- but I found it far more entertaining and suspenseful than a lot of other movies out this summer that got inexplicably better reviews.
There's *plenty* of action (although the battle scenes are not nearly as well choreographed as, say "Braveheart") and some fun surprises, but what I liked best about the flick is that for once, it's the guys and not the babes who are the eyecandy! A lot of handsome, hardy Vikings doing manly things makes it easy to forgive the film's faults. Oh yeah... some guy named Antonio is in it. Eh, who cares. Did I mention the Vikings?