Incredible Story, Incredible Film

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2013)

If you think you've seen DeNiro's best, you have to see this film - true, too, of Jeremy Irons's performance. (If you think DeNiro is the same in every movie, typecast so to speak, you absolutely have to see his knockout performance in this movie, in which he proves his greatness - if anyone doubted that.) Lusciously filmed, this is a moving film of a real story everyone needs to know. And is it simply one of the best films ever made as well. It builds and builds and builds to its tragic end in a way that keeps you on the edge of your seat. And this story is a side of the Americas no one ever talks about - if they're aware of it at all. Anyone who cares about what we did to the Native Americans in the United States needs to see what the Europeans did to the indigenous people of South America - as is brought out (at least one side of it) in this deeply touching movie about early power struggles in the New World. And if you think religious people were never true heroes or important and selflessly brave fighters for justice, then this movie will change all that. If you are unaffected at the end, you have no heart. Wow! What a story, what a cast, what a beautifully-filmed movie, what a great movie!