Andreas Mangelakis

I had the chance to find this film on Netflix and I m so glad I did. Most negative critics of the film mention the lack of pace, the long stares of the characters and other negatives. I believe the majority of the men that formed the detail of Captain Joe Blocker including him suffer from PTSD after years of combating what was perceived as the enemy in the plains Indians little realising that these people had had their lands taken from them. Guilt, depression, anger and remorse riddle these men who want one way or another to end their torment. Captain Blocker tries to still maintain their spirits by giving them support and what is considered to be a more noble mission but their journey is faced with more death, loss of more men that don’t deserve to die and a hostile environment that seems to have no end to it. The actors and director capture this emotional turmoil of all the characters in a real, visceral and cinematically beautiful way. I can not fault the movie for it’s pace, it maintained my interest from beginning to end and as another reviewer pointed out the ending is beautiful, so much emotion and so much thinking from Joe Blocker in what I can only describe as an immensely deep character with stout moral values and a tenderness that Rosalee’s character eventually falls in love with.