Beautiful but too long

Rating: 3/10 (20 February 2007)

This movie is poetry. It is very beautiful in its images and more is shown than told. There is hardly any dialog (at least from the main characters) but some voice overs. But the story is slow. The first half is too long. It can't stay alive on beautiful images alone.
The focus should have been more on Pocahontas and less on Smith, as he more or less departs from the story later on. This is Pocahonta's story.
Then it is a pleasure to see a movie with this theme that does not end in a pessimistic bloodbath as most movies in this genre do. There is a fight, yes, and the natives are mistreated towards the end, but both sides show good and bad features, and definitely good intentions. There is not "an ugly bad guy".