Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Inmechon The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

jacobjohntaylor1 This is an awful movie. My cousin Eric Schweig is actor who was in this movie and he did not like it. I do not blame him. It did not have a good story line. It is very slow and very depressing.

chubbydave This story covers the period from the battle at Little Big Horn to the massacre at Wounded Knee.It's your typical heart-tugging depiction of mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government and its people. The theme is trending since Dances With Wolves. The viewer is supposed to cry or burn with liberal outrage. Look how bad our government treated them. Why didn't people do anything?But if you want to know why people didn't do anything, you can just ask yourself. This is still going on. The U.S. supported government in Honduras has been cheating Native Hondurans out their land. They'll damn a river to make a hydroelectric plant, sell the power to El Salvador or Guatemala and then put the profits in the pockets of politicians and other oligarchs. Entire cultures have been destroyed to build these dams. It's going on right now. Indians have even been killed to clear the way for profits.So as you watch this movie in outrage and cry for the poor Native Americans and curse those who did nothing, take a look in the mirror.

whatalovelypark Looking through the reviews, there seem to be lots of people complaining that this wasn't a $100million 5 part epic with most of the dialogue in Sioux. Still, HBO should be congratulated for simply making this movie.The movie could be best described as informative, about events that probably few people know anything about. It covers quite a lot of territory, and renders it digestible.The movie has the usual TV syle camera methods. The acting is a little wooden, and parts are clichéd. It also tries to include the events, the legal matters, and personal stories, which is always difficult, but succeeds to a reasonable degree. There's a story about a young Sioux man and his white wife threaded in, probably to stop the movie simply being about the Sioux and white bureaucrats and soldiers. But this is the price of getting an audience.Not highly memorable, but informative and interesting. Pretty good, by the standards of television movies of the time. Who knows, maybe by 2100 there will be a film about how the US conquered/stole half of Mexico too.

irish23 The movie is compelling and (of course) full of pathos. It presents complexities not normally addressed in "good guy vs bad guy" films. But it also presents a number of highly complex situations that it can't possibly resolve in a movie format. A documentary would be better suited.The acting was excellent, with the exception of the ever-predictable Aidan Quinn. Anna Paquin was impressively in command of her performance and did much better than I expected. The rest of the cast was just as good.This picture made me cry like a documentary would but didn't draw me in like a compelling movie. I think it's just a case of wrong medium for the story.