13th Warrior could have been great

Rating: 6/10 (15 March 2006)

Why oh why oh why did they edit so much.
I have never seen a film ruined so badly by editing in my life. Great story, great characters (I will come back to this one though) and believable looking Vikings, all in all, with a brilliant sound track - you have a chance at a great film.
Big Spoiler alert.
Unfortunately the biggest killer, and no matter how many times I watch it, this is a fact, is you only ever see 12 warriors? where is the 13th? there wasn't one!! am I missing something? two vikings die in the first attack, four in the second, one in the cave and one at the end - how many were left? there were 4!!! how? please correct me somebody, but I think they edited this film so much some poorer actor got chopped off.
What a shame, I still think it is good, although the film loses some of the more interesting proper big, muscle bound Vikings too early and we are left with irritating accents instead.
If they produce a directors cut with at least 15 more minutes on there I would buy it.