Holy crap, this movie takes the cake ...

Rating: 1/10 (8 July 2011)

... as the most boring movie I have ever seen, beating The Godfather series and The Shawshank Redemption. The majority of the "acting" consists of John Smith walking around alone at about 0.5mph, staring at the ground and voicing emo crap in a low depressed voice. Like The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption, anything in the movie takes ages to happen.
But the crappiness of this film doesn't stop at the tortoise-like pace. No, many things about the movie just seem like poor choices by the production team:

Allusions to the discrepancies between European and Native American cultures were very scarce and have almost no specialized bearing on the actual plot. It's basically an extremely superficial plot placed in a Native American setting.

The cinematographic choice of "jumping" camera shots in action scenes makes no sense, especially when they remain unfinished (for example, Native Americans start beating up John Smith, and in the next shot suddenly they're ooo-ing and aaa-ing over Smith's compass while he explains its usage in an amiable, conversational manner).

John Smith is not a leader in this movie - or least, the movie does a very bad job depicting him as one. As I mentioned before, most of the time Smith is shown sulking around by himself voicing lame emo crap. Other times he is shown playing juvenile games in the wilderness with a childlike interest in the surrounding environment as he peers around with baby-like eyes. Not only does his body language and mannerisms point to a completely clueless wimp, but also he is very rarely shown actually speaking to his own men or commanding them in any fashion. Based on John Smith's character as depicted in this film, it is unfathomable how he rose to and/or maintained a leadership position, unless he suddenly had a stroke and with that a complete personality change.

Where the hell are the action scenes?