Amazingly bad - a good candidate for worst film of the year.

Rating: 1/10 (19 February 2006)

We went to see this film about Red Indians because the film about happy cowboys doesn't come out until next week.
I thought of walking out a number of times, but wondered just how bad it could be - it was truly dire. This film is a pretentious waste of anybody's time. The acting is so bad that it is funny at times - as are the numerous mistakes. The one I liked particularly is a shot of a child eating an enormous bright yellow mielie, as produced by top agribusiness today as if that's what they had back then. The English court scene would have been an embarrassment if acted in a junior school play.
The acting, if you can call it that, is of the standard that South African films used to have - all the characters are wooden, nearly all the time. The extras look like very uncomfortable extras in unfamiliar clothes. The plot, such as it is, based on historical events, unwinds with painful and obvious slowness - but still has huge gaps in it.
The achingly obvious message the film ponderously tries to hammer home is, I suppose, thought by the producer to be subtle.
Oh, dear, what an amazing crock of shite - avoid at all possible costs. Unless you find continuity errors and anachronisms amusing.