Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

jane smith I liked this series at first, and let me be clear, it was well made and well acted all the way through, but it seemed to lose sight of the characters after the first couple episodes. After a while it no longer focused on the characters, but just on history. Not to mention that there were too many new characters being introduced, killed off, and forgotten about all the time. (for instance, whatever happened to Abraham?) I found it hard to pay attention to what was going on after a while. It seemed to morph from historical fiction to just plain history. Nothing wrong with that, but it wasn't how it began, and it didn't interest me as much. It could have been a lot better if they kept the series more character centric, and focused on less people at a time. And after a while I completely lost interest in the characters, as I began to realize that they were only props to convey a history lesson. They no longer went out and did anything, but instead just conveniently observed historical events, without ever fulfilling their own story. By the end I was glad to be done with it, because the series was beginning to drag. One thing I will say for it is that it portrayed the plight of the native Americans very well (so much so that I found it hard to watch at points)

irishcoloradan I enjoyed Into the West enough to buy the CD set. I think there were parts where the script was too cliché and not very good, and some others where the acting was poor (Matthew Modine). Also, there were too many instances in which characters were either not developed well enough or completely left hanging (what happened to Abe Wheeler?). But overall, I liked it. While it was historically more accurate than Dances With Wolves (not hard to do), it still offered an overly sympathetic image of the Lakota. In ITW, the poor Lakota are seen as "picked on" by rival tribes, such as the Crow. In fact, the Sioux had been pushed onto the prairie from their previous home west of Lake Superior in the 17th century by the Ojibway. They, in turn, got firearms and pushed the Crow, Cheyenne, Pawnee and others out of the northern plains. They were vicious to these tribes and hated by them. And they had firearms WELL before 1825.

nmckane I finally saw the whole mini series finally on the 29th. I have a great sympathy for the Native Americans. Even though I have European blood there is also some Shawnee and Cherokee. Steven Spielberg did an excellent job best movie since Dances with Wolves. There where a few times when the tears where ready to flow, the white men took the lands from the Indians and it never stopped. I can not image what it was like to live then in constant fear on either side. The historical view was well done, my hat is off to Mr.Spielberg. If the government would have keep there promises than things would have been much different at least I think so.

murpz This is an awesome, awesome miniseries (or 12 hour movie, depending how you look at it). The title "Into the West" might make you think this is another movie about the US and its expansion westward, settling the wild west. You'd be very wrong. This movie focuses heavily on the experience of the people who were already there, and what the invasion meant to them and their culture. Spielberg has used his incredible talents to produce a powerful chronicle of an epic clash of civilizations, and the profoundness of what was lost. It's also a good movie to watch, with top notch acting and cinematography. I caught the last episode of this when it was on TV, and when I saw it available on DVD, I immediately bought it so I could see the whole thing. I'm very satisfied with my purchase!