Pathfinder

Solid action for the first half and then the movie runs out of steam.

The name is problematic- a 'pathfinder' is someone who keeps watch for enemy ships?

The Vikings had very little motivation beyond wanting to kill people. Some kind of ulterior motive and characterization would helped greatly- why would they cross a mountain pass just to find some more villages? The obvious thing would be to make more of a personal connection to the protagonist, instead we get 'I knew your father' and nothing more. Other than that a desire for gold or natural resource, or to clear the way to establish a colony- even the killing could have been qualified by a spoken desire to return home with greater glory.

The other major problem for the movie is that the setting is very limited. There are the Native Americans, who look and dress one way, the Vikings, who are very distinct, and then either ice or snow forest and mountains. All of these elements are exhausted after 40 minutes, and then there is a slow and badly paced sequence where the protagonists are prisoners of the Vikings that lasts until the end of the movie.

During that last half, if there had been greater plot it could have been redeemed by having more interaction between the protagonists and the villains, something more than 'where is the village?' followed by 'this way' four or five times. They had to change the dynamic in the movie somehow, the guerilla traps sequences wouldn't have kept up for much longer.

Otherwise, the only direction to go would have required a greater budget for a large native vs. Viking battle scene- the first clue that this is not going to happen is when the one native and his raiding party are dispensed with quickly after falling into a trap meant for the other side. There are a lot of lower budget movies that start big with lots of people and a short way in kill most of them to allow for a more cheap movie that only has a few people on screen at any point. (I suspect the new Rambo is similar, or never even bothers with having a large group of people to begin with- none of the previews show more than three people in a shot).

Too many movies are about unifying against an enemy, I'm glad there wasn't a plot thread where previously bickering tribes had to be united- but the end battle necessary there would have been better than what was filmed.

The 'snowmobile chase' scene is pretty good, I would have had the protagonist sitting on the shield shooting arrows back at the sleds.

The movie seems similar to Conan with a shirtless muscled hero, but Conan at least had the setting where some new and interesting exotic locale was only a horseride away. Other comparable movies might be 300 or King Arthur, both which pitted smaller groups against large enemies. King Arthur even shared a scene where a bunch of the enemies are wiped out by cracking ice.