In 2001, he appeared in the offbeat rural romance The Price of Milk, for which he received his first nomination at the New Zealand Qantas Film and Television Awards. Both programs were filmed in New Zealand. He also made appearances as Mael in the episode " Altared States" from the first season of Xena, then as Kor in the episode " Lifeblood" from the fifth season.
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Urban appeared in an early role on the television soap opera Shortland Street later he was seen on the internationally syndicated American/New Zealand TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and on its spin-off Xena: Warrior Princess, in which he played the recurring roles of both Cupid and Julius Caesar from 1997 to 2001. Urban then moved briefly to Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia in 1995 before returning to New Zealand the following year. Eventually, he moved to Auckland where he was offered many guest roles in TV shows (one of which was playing a heroin addict in the police drama Shark in the Park). Over the next few years, he appeared in several local TV commercials in addition to theater roles in the Wellington area. He then enrolled at Victoria University of Wellington in the Bachelor of Arts program but left after one year to pursue a career in acting.
He attended Wellington College in 1986–1990. Though continuing to take part in school stage productions, he did not act professionally again until after high school. His first acting role came at age eight, when he had a single line in one episode of the New Zealand television series Pioneer Woman. Urban attended St Mark's Church School, where he showed an early love for public performance. Through his mother, the young Urban was exposed to classic New Zealand cinema and developed an interest in the film industry. His father, a German immigrant, owned a leather goods store, and his mother once worked for Film Facilities in Wellington. The official "Pathfinder" Web site is far more interesting than the movie itself, and you'll get better history lessons from the Vikings of Minnesota.Urban was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Compared to the dynamic "Apocalypto," there is simply nothing in this film to hold anyone's interest.įan-boys and Fangoria readers are this movie's target audience, and they'll be the most disappointed. Drained of all color and set against near-constant snowfall, "Pathfinder" runs its murky course with cheap-looking CGI, dreary locations (filmed in Vancouver, B.C.) and a climactic sequence on a treacherous mountain ledge that was done far better in "The Fellowship of the Ring."īest known for his 2003 remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," Marcus Nispel directs this waste of time as if he were anesthetized, and that numbness extends to the performances, for which "wooden" is a generous assessment. Ghost defends his tribe, and the ensuing Viking-against-Viking smackdown consists of seemingly endless low-budget battle scenes so badly edited that you can't tell (and don't care) who's beheading whom. That's when the Vikings return, led by character actor Clancy Brown under thick furs and armor, spouting subtitled Norse dialect and eager for destruction. Years later, Ghost is now a buff brave-in-the-making (played by New Zealand actor Karl Urban), mentored by chief Pathfinder (Russell Means) and smitten with a tribal hottie named Starfire (Moon Bloodgood). One of their longboats was destroyed, and the sole survivor was a boy adopted by a northeastern Native American tribe, renamed "Ghost" and raised as one of their own. Unlike Stone's film, no amount of editorial tinkering could ever fix "Pathfinder." Loosely inspired by the Oscar-nominated 1987 Norwegian film of the same name, this crushing bore begins by telling us (as legend would have it) that Vikings discovered North America 600 years before Columbus. But it was - by one of the writers of Oliver Stone's "Alexander," so consider yourself warned. It takes 100 minutes to tell less story than you'd find in most TV commercials, and tells it with such dour solemnity and lack of coherent purpose that it's hard to imagine its screenplay was ever written.
By any rational criteria, "Pathfinder" barely qualifies as a movie.
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