John McTiernan's Last Great Flick

Rating: 9/10 (20 September 2016)

Greetings from Lithuania.
"The 13th Warrior" (1999) was always one of my favorite movies of John McTiernan. Maybe that's because i've seen this movie when i was 15- 16 years old, and i saw it like 5 or 6 times, yes, loved this film at the time.
What still strikes me the most is how superbly atmospheric this movie was. Set design was superb, you can clearly see many objects build specifically, and they weren't just cheap sets. Actors were all superb and did a great job for this material, only wished to see late Omar Sharif more on screen. This movie plays like a adventure movie (in the beginning), later it becomes like "Predator" and at the some sort of "Siege" movie. All genres clicked in here, thus creating this superbly involving and brutal world.
Overall, "The 13th Warrior" was the last great flick of the great John McTiernan, who's carrier after this movie basically went into oblivion (but not because of this movie). Shame. Having this skill of creating superbly involving, intense and plausible looking entertaining movies, he should definitely would be still very helpful around. "The 13th Warrior" is the proof.