BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Uriah43 After a bus carrying several convicts in Oregon overturns and several prisoners to escape into an especially harsh and dangerous part of the country, the local sheriff decides to dispatch a highly regarded bounty hunter by the name of "Lewis Gates" (Tom Berenger) to locate and bring them back in. However, to his horror, when he finally catches up to them he discovers a massive amount of blood and some clothes belonging to the convicts—but no bodies. And it's then that he finds an arrow of some sort on the scene as well. So to help him understand what is going on he drives several hours out of his way to locate a professor of Native American studies named "Lillian Diane Sloan" (Barbara Hershey) in the hope that she can give him some answers. Unfortunately, what she tells him is so fantastic that nobody else will believe him. That being the case, he gets Professor Sloan to accompany him out into this part of the wilderness so that they can somehow piece together a puzzle that has eluded everybody in America for decades. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a very entertaining film which benefited from the beautiful scenery, decent acting and an engaging plot. Admittedly, there were a couple of scenes which were a bit unrealistic but that's Hollywood for you. Be that as it may, I enjoyed this film and I have rated it accordingly. Above average.

sethhmusler ...that Crap Murphy watched Dances with Wolves and sketched an outline for this turd during the credits. The writing is absolutely dreadful, the dialogue preposterous, stiff, and unbelievable. The silly-ass scenes when Berenger is first meeting Barbara Hershey are cringingly bad. An especially tired and lame "where is the old fart?" had me reaching for the remote. Hershey's equally unbelievable "I have to warn you, I like to walk around naked in the morning..." really puts a spotlight on the lack of chemistry between the two leads. In fact I'm pretty sure they only chose Hershey because she vaguely looks like Mary McDonnell from Dances WW. I guess I shouldn't be but I am again surprised by all of the glowing and gushing going on in previous reviews. I just don't understand why EVERYONE doesn't see how poor the dialogue is, how crap the premise is, how rusty and predictable the plot twists are. It's true the scenery is breathtaking but it's hardly a distraction from the half-assed writing and directing by this Murphy hack. No wonder Hollywood keeps churning out garbage. Garbage has an audience. Not a very large one, however, as is evidenced by the fact that I'd never heard of this movie before. Maybe if I had kids that I had to entertain I would feel differently about the films worth, but I wouldn't fail to notice the Saved-by-the-Bell-esque attempts at humor or clumsy character development. Seriously, the actors conversations are so embarrassingly ridiculous that I felt like they were written by a Junior High-Schooler. Crap Murphy should stick to that demographic from now on.

AirborneRanger If you can get past the premise, this is a really good movie. It has all of the elements you could ask for. The cinematography is stunning. After seeing this movie, I started looking at real estate in Banff. There is romance with good and believable chemistry between the leads, well done and believable conflict between Gates and his father in law, humor, commentary on the American West in the form of a moral lecture, and the initial conflict between the two Alpha males that turns to respect and then friendship.The unlikely star of the movie is really the dog; I don't know if that was intentional or not, but it will make you want to get a dog like that.My favorite and most disturbing scene is the dream sequence. For better or worse, you can actually see our bloody history with the Indians playing out all over again. That perhaps is the most striking thing about this movie: You can really imagine that perhaps we have not moved forward as a society or culture when it comes to dealing with anything that we do not understand or refuse to learn about.

jwood3-3 This is a movie that you will stop and watch every time it shows on TV: IF you have a true romantic spirit and love an outdoor action movie.The first sentence says it all, but let me say that the actors are well matched and the chemistry is great. I recently spent some time in Western Vancouver Island and was struck by the scenery and immediately thought of this movie and the beautiful backdrop in every scene. It is truly a beautiful movie.I am not a movie critic and as you probably can tell, this is my first, impromptu attempt to recommend a movie. It is a story about an itinerate cowboy and a secret that he stumbles across while tracking some runaway convicts. The story line has many facets that unfold as the cowboy becomes entangled in the secret that he uncovers.