If this is "The New World", I'll keep the old!

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2006)

Yes, this movie is long. I don't mind long movies especially if they are interesting. Once you grasp the main idea of this one, there isn't much left but beautiful scenery and relaxing music. It's like a spa machine with the tiniest plot line thrown in. Lots of pebbles and babbling brooks, thunder, ominous skies, ominous eyebrows, and very pale, foul smelling English settlers but not much going on in or outside of the characters.
The main thrust of the story being the native girls innate spirituality that eventually leads her to happiness in spite of her circumstance. Once that point is made , it's overkill. The heroine is so perfect as to be one dimensional and uninteresting. Colin Farrell is also uninteresting. There are two interesting people in this movie, Christian Bale's character and the tribal chief. I suspect the actual history told with accuracy is a lot more compelling.