Quite slow and even partially boring.

Rating: 5/10 (5 August 2007)

It's probably my fault that I watched this movie immediately after I've seen Apocalypto and had an immediate picture in my mind of how (good) this movie could have been.
Compared to it, not even the costumes seemed realistic and rather actually rather "dull". The second mistake, was probably to expect a similar movie that is more focused onto the colonists and the colonization process itself. The movie even starts in that way and keeps the impression up for quite a while, but it ends up in being a slow love-story which centers only on Pocahontas for almost the entire second half of the movie.
You really got to love long camera-shots focusing on her just walking around the set or staring at someone for minutes on end to actually begin liking the second half of the movie, not to talk about various long nature shots dubbed with the overly illustrious theme music of the movie for over 2 minutes.
It had some good things about it though, especially the beginning made me wonder what it would have been like to have lived at a time like that, while having completely different things to worry about compared to today and with large parts of the world still unexplored and "mystical" (Here be Dragons), in which you didn't have a Google Earth at the tip of your fingers to zoom in and see any island or part of the world you want from above or being able to fly there in a matter of hours.
5/10 even though it's more likely only high 4 for me personally.