Review of the trailer - LOKI (27 août 1998)
Source : Ain't It Cool News
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=1977

"Loki spy here returning for duty. First off let me say that I am Norwegian and my spelling could be a bit off, but at the Norwegian film festival in my home town Haugesund, Disney showed the full trailer for THE 13TH WARRIOR, and as I did last year when I wrote you the first L.A. CONFIDENTIAL review, I felt obligated to share this tiny bit of info with my friends here at AICN.
It has been a bit quiet on this flick ever since that stunningly cool teaser, when the film was still called EATERS OF THE DEAD was shown early this year. Then Disney pulled back the teaser, re-named and delayed the film for a full year.
When John Mctiernan was assigned to direct this movie a few years ago I was as extatic as I had never been about any project before. I knew with him at the helm the film was going to be one of the coolest, meanest and shocking movies ever made. I wanted it to be CONAN meets ALIENS meets PREDATOR mixed with a little BRAVEHEART, and I never doubted Disney would want it differently. This could have been a groundbreaker, the first big budget medieval/horror film ever made.
Then a few months back test screening reviews posted on this site shocked me when they suspected Disney had designed it as a PG 13 movie. Knowing the book I refused to believe this. The book is so intense and hard core that making it a PG 13 movie seemed like the stupidest decision ever for a studio, it simply could not be true I thought at the time.
Well today I saw the new full 2 minutes 30 sec trailer with the title change, but the trailer did not state a day of release or rating.
The very beginning of the trailer made the film look quite bad, it sentered around Antonios love affair with a beutiful arabian woman, and the music early on reminded me of the music used in the EVER AFTER trailer. Then the trailer picks up pace in the last minute and a half when Antonio joins the Vikings and becomes the 13th warrior. There was quick shots of cool mayhem looking battle scenes fought in hard rain, lots of sword figthing, Viking brutality and bad ass flesh eaters. There was a brief creepy scene at the end of the trailer that showed Antonio and his Viking sidekick Dennis Storhøy trapped in a dark cabin surrounded by the flesh eating monsters hurling outside, that worked very well with the audience.
Overall this was a good trailer that made the film look epic, and some of the images looked just as cool as I imagined while reading the book. But now for the baaaaaad part: The score they used and the way the trailer was presented and put together simply screeeeeaaaamed P fucking G 13. It's hard to explain exactly why I felt this way, but you will understand when Disney attach this trailer to one of their fall releases. I mean the film is supposedly about brutal Vikings fighting flesh eating monsters, and how and earth can you do that truthfully making it a kids movie.
Personally if this comes out as a PG 13 movie it will be the worst example ever of an obvious adult R rated movie that has been softened up so the kids can see it, and the studio can makes it's money back. This movie had the potential of beeing a true epic but at the same time have that in your face, ass kicking intensity of say FROM DUSK TILL DAWN and BLADE. Shame on Disney if what I suspect is proves to be true. What could have been one of the best and original movies ever made could still be a fun one I guess even with a PG 13 rating, but for me at least it would be my biggest dissapointment ever as a true film geek."