Gabriel Negrusa I watched this movie with little expectations and it managed to surpass them. I stood and thought why it isn't more acclaimed, since it has many elements that stand up compared to more well known films. I realized Navigator's main flaw is it doesn't succeed to induce the right state of mind to the audience from the very beginning. If you watch Terminator 2 expecting a realistic SF you'd find many things making no sense, but if you watch it with the action movie conventions in mind you find everything it's on it's place. Every single movie needs to make the viewer familiar with it's rules and conventions, to set him in the right mood. Navigator has a pretty ambiguous beginning, and it's not very consistent after that either, leaving me confused at times if i'm watching a kids fairytale with some serious undertones, an actually profound artistic movie, or just an exploitation on the concept of "what if medieval people traveled in our time".Otherwise everything else about Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey is great. The characters are very well designed, when i was a kid i had myself an idol like Connor (we probably all did), the man that is a natural leader, knows every time what is right and doesn't afraid of anything. But in real life even this kind of persons are still human beings, they mess up sometimes, they lose hope sometimes, no one's perfect, and i really liked this little touch of humanity Connor has. Ulf even though he's the oldest in the group he's the clumsiest and most insecure. He's still a child at heart, even more than Griffin, the actual child. The fact that his friends care about him so much despite him being more of a liability to their mission is really touching. Overall all medieval characters are very realistic compared to what we see in the genre.Maybe some people that watched this movie would expect the reactions of the medieval villagers to the modern city to be different, more powerful. The truth is, it's hard to imagine how would such people react in a situation like that, and i can't think of films that get this aspect right and believable, but i think Navigator comes quite close. There was a lot of unknown during that ages, and for the villagers of a remote mine everything was new, a big medieval city would be just as new and strange as a modern city with skyscrapers, cars and trains. They expected to see strange things, and they saw strange things, not too much reason to get overexcited.Somewhere about 6-7.

endem This is a parable regarding the salvation of the community through the vision and sacrifice of one innocent boy.I stumbled onto this movie at an "art house" back in the day and was impressed by and absorbed into the bleakness of the medieval miners' lives. As the story continues into then contemporary New Zealand there are a few amusing moments, but the gags are mostly predictable. One nice touch was how the modern foundrymen and the "visitors" found a common "language" in casting the cross. It seemed apparent to me that the boy represented Jesus Christ, the Black Death, spiritual death and the placing of the cross atop the highest spire symbolic for the elevation of faith in Christ to redeem the world. The end of the story defines this view.

sgoslar This is definitely a film for people who enjoy certain genre, ie;fantasy/medieval, adventure, dreams. In some ways it reminded me of "Willow", and "Princess Bride". If you don't like these types of films, you won't like this one. Period pieces/time travel, fantasy fans should enjoy it.It's far superior to something like "Black Knight", or "A Kid in King Arthur's Court", but similar to these films in many ways. It's visually fascinating, esp. the tunnel digging scene. I would love to own a copy of this one!There are certain beliefs that should be suspended during the watching of the film, those with strict religious views or Bible interpretations may object.

Claudio Carvalho On the Fourteenth Century, a small community is threatened by the black plague, which is soiling Europe. Griffin (Hamish McFarlane) is an eight years boy with visions. These visions show the salvation for his people: digging a hole to center of the earth and putting a cross on the top of a church. Griffin, his brother Connor and some locals starts their quest that brings them to the Twentieth Century. This is indeed a weird movie. Only yesterday I decided to watch it, and I do not dare to say that I liked or disliked it. First, because although being a very strange film, it is also very original. The black & white for the scenes of the dark Middle Ages and the colored ones for the present days is a technique very unusual. Second, the plot is totally unpredictable, with no clichés. And last but not the least, the unknown cast has a great performance. My vote is six.