A Brilliant Theologically Based Movie

Rating: 8/10 (18 March 2008)

I attend a Catholic high school (not Catholic myself) and we watched this movie in Church History class. I was expecting a dry movie about events that surrounded the Native Americans in South America, and was surprised by how brilliant this movie is.
Besides presenting the story in a historically correct context, the film itself is brilliant. The cinematography is beautiful, the score is perfect for the movie, and Jeremy Iron turns in one of the best performances of his career.
The movie can be a little slow moving at times, and I understand how everyone may not like it, but there are certainly much worse movies out there to watch. A definite recommendation.