Zwick's style of sap.

Rating: 7/10 (22 April 2006)

Edward Zwick's epic tale of frontier life is not a bad movie. Sappy, yes, at times but bad? Nope. In fact, I can actually enjoy and appreciate Zwick's style of sapit has sort of a nostalgic feel to it. The story spans many years and seems to hone in on Brad Pitt's character; I guess because he was the most "true" human of them all. The action, consisting of some battle scenes, knife and gun fights, and bear attacks, is fairly good and the acting is more than adequate all around. On the Special Edition DVD there are three deleted scenes, one of which is very similar to a scene in Zwick's The Last Samurai. It's the scene involving a person who is a bit too curious about the details of scalping.