Horrid Plotline, Acting, and Score.

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2001)

I watched this moive out of pitty for my best friend and mate, whom loves it...or did, and thats how i ended up with it.
The reviews i've heard are not even close to how horrible this thing is.

1) Everything (bad) that can happen does happen.
2) All characters but the main ones are undeveloped and are in there mainly for fodder for the "oh-no's!" of this film.
3) Look at Miss Ormond (whom I adored in the remake of Sibrina) She's just completely miscast (as were Pitt, Quinn, Hopkins. The only semi-beliveable one of the men is Henry Thomas, whom we don't see all that long). She is not a good actress for playing weak women - as this one should have been, if anyone did ANY historical research for the film.
4) One Stab - indians in this era did not say, "moon-of". Most by the early 1900s had lost their culture completely to the "settlers" whom had of course been ruling the country completly for sometime.
5) Good cenimatography ruined by a bad score and bad acting. My favorite scene, does however have music. It is when Ormand's character is sitting at the piano and (Henry Thomas) Samuel is signing some song that sounds like it belongs out of the era. His voice, or whomever was singing for him, is great. That's the best part of the movie, enjoy it it lasts a whole two minutes out of 132 other minutes of sheer hell.