Cinematic

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2001)

Lean proves his worth as a director here in epic style. The probem with making epics however is that you can get too caught up in your vision. That was the case here in a film that is just TOO LONG, and was badly in need of editing. I'm sure Lean and most others involved in this work would disagree, but there is art and then there is the art of being succint when called for. A 2 1/2 hour time would have been much better. A strange note: This movie obviously inspired "Dances With Wolves", the similarites ("civilized" army officer enters a "primative" culture and takes on their ways).