Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

SnoopyStyle In 1943 Amazon Basin, Ecuador, Mincayani as a boy survives a massacre in his village as the Waodani tribe live in a never-ending series of revenge killings. Dayumae is a native girl taken by outsiders. The spear is the preferred weapon. In 1956, a group of missionaries fly their plane and make contact with the help of Dayumae. There are misunderstandings and Mincayani's group kills the missionaries. Despite the murders, the dead missionaries' families continue the work.This is a message movie and I love the message. Louie Leonardo is charismatic as Mincayani. The rest of the cast is filled with B-level actors. This is not a dramatic affair but a compelling story nevertheless. I choose to love this movie for its message and the quiet heroism that is more superhuman than any superhero movie.

Armand at first sigh - unrealistic story. but, more than adaptation of real facts, it is a window to different way to discover world. it is only image of present. world as global village, dialog as cure for war spirit, Christian message as bridge between cultures. and the gift of forgiveness. it is not a movie about missionaries or about exotic space. it is not a lesson about life or testimony about a special experience. it is a honest film. without great ambitions, without desire to impress. after its end, not the images from Amazon region, not the moralistic subject are important but a feeling, a nice and fresh and bitter and salt and warm feeling. and this is its fundamental virtue - to remember basic pieces of science to be yourself.

siderite This is a descriptive story, one that tells of real events, although I am certain they are highly edited. Basically, a bunch of white guys living in Ecuador decide to "save" the local savage tribes still living in the stone age, killing each other for women and hunting grounds.The missionaries are portrayed as real selfless people, with only a few scenes purporting to the religious aspect of their quest, which, in my opinion, was probably the main if not the only reason they were there in the first place.Due to a misunderstanding, the missionaries are killed, but their wives and children end up living in the village of their killers, turning the other cheek, as it were, and breaking the endless cycle of violence... by bringing polio to the enemy tribe :)Bottom line: it is a point of view breaker. By watching the movie, one gets to break out of their cozy view of the world and gather more insight into human nature. Understanding the amount of editing of the real story and the politics behind it brings more insight.

emuir-1 Why do filmmakers take the trouble to go to exotic locations, use the native language of the characters in the film, then cast non-native actors in many of the roles? The whole effect is ruined. It is as jarring as when old Hollywood cast Susan Hayward as a Mongol princess, and various blond blue eyed Caucasians natives of India or the South Sea Islands. Mel Gibson did exactly the same with Apocalypto. To make it even more ridiculous, the non-natives usually cannot speak the tribal language which affects their performance. Louis Leonardo and Christine Sousa may be good actors, but they do not look like Amazonians. Their characters physical appearance might have been credible as mixed race offspring of workers in an Amazon shanty town and their native wives, but not in an isolated jungle tribe which we are led to believe had no prior contact with civilization.Casting gripes aside, I did not realize before I saw it that this was a religious themed film, but they fortunately kept the preaching to a minimum. Films with a religious message are frequently appallingly amateurish with characters walking around with beatific smiles on their faces while turning the other cheek to adversity. If you have watched St. Theresa you will know what I mean.The only problem other than the casting, was that I could not follow what was going on most of the time. There was no explanation of who the white men with guns were, or why they were killing the natives. the story seemed to jump about all over the place with no explanation for who was doing what and why. All I could do was sit back and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Panama.