Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

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

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

tedg Spoilers herein.There is indeed a ghostly presence in the American West. It is based on myth, which gives it power. It destroys without knowing; it depends on magic and belief. Its name is family Redford.Yes, good old Robert and now his son are the culprits here. They have a wistful, idealized vision of a noble people defiled. There ‘s the evil corporation, the environmental desecration (which the natives would never have done!) and the conflict between the white and red man's magic. All set in Hallmark hues spun with an unacknowledged Hollywood mainstream gloss.It says a lot that this passes for politically correct. Give it a few years before Native Americans realize that the artificial nobility bestowed by a well-meaning Hollywood (and we include the Sundancers in this) is just as offensive as the `mad injun' stuff that preceded it.I refer the reader to `Napolean Bonapart' or Bony as he is known in the detective fiction of Arthur Upfield. Bony is a halfbreed, part white (with an advanced university degree) and part aborigine, or `black.' Because he is half black, he has tracking and intuition `in his blood,` and a mystical connection with the land. These 29 novels - in which the mystical and logical compete and sometimes cooperate - were popular books just a couple decades ago. Read one to see how offensive it is and why they are so universally rejected today. Dramatic myth which spins stereotypes is just as offensive when those stereotypes are `positive,` and the intent honest even more so because it patronizes. Now read Bony again and see how closely the current writer Hillerman copies Upfield, in many details as well as the overall tone.Stay away from this, unless you just want to appreciate the very fine photography and editing Dad arranged for his boy. Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

B24 I just caught this on PBS for the first time and immediately noticed all the errors and shortcomings I had planned to document before seeing they had been mentioned by viewers already. Morris Bitsie in particular has commented accurately, as have all the people who vastly preferred the book(s).It just begs the question to have the benefit of Tony Hillerman's own acknowledgement in the afterword that the process of making a movie is very different from that of writing a novel. But to see the movie set on the low desert instead of the high plateau of the Navajo nation is almost as sacrilegious as giving short shrift to the actual language, religion, and culture of the Dine themselves.As a former student at Northern Arizona University with many friends on the nation, I was dismayed to see Hillerman's sensitive and intricate plot and characters chopped up, re-sorted, and spat out as yet another Hollywood style detective yarn. Only the mere fact that all the main characters were at least Native Americans saved it, though the usual all-Indians-look-alike-so-why-bother-to-get-real-Navajos aspect is so obvious as to be ludicrous.Because I want to see better versions of Hillerman in the future, and I think Adam Beach has an appealing start toward a real Jim Chee, I rated this about four points too high at a 7 of 10. Next time I want to see real Navajos, however.

alindsey-2 I just have to say after being a fan on Tony Hillerman's for years that I was afraid what would happen to my favorite characters if they were adapted to the big screen. I was afraid I would fall asleep as I did in the Lou Diamond Phillips version. However Wes, Adam, Chris and everyone associated with this project did a great job. I look forward to more adaptations. Thanks Mr. Hillerman for taking a chance on your characters that you created being adapted for film.

hurdlej A long-time fan of the books, I watched the film a little on edge. Could they do justice to Hillerman's sensitivity for The People and not get bogged down in a dusty melodrama? My reaction when it was over was mixed. The characterizations were fine; I had already casted the role of Leaphorn to Wes Studi, so I had no complaints about the cast. Ultimately, it was the pacing that diminished the movie. There is a lot of ground to cover in this story, especially with the counterpoint of Emma's illness intruding throughout. It all unravels too quickly, and this robs the story of the deliberative drama Hillerman spins out so well. And speaking of ground to cover, where were the panoramas of the Southwest?