awful to watch, beautiful to look at

Rating: 1/10 (4 December 2006)

First, I'll concede that this movie has a beautiful, authentic look. And that's all that it has going for it.
I found the story almost impossible to follow. First it abruptly jumped in the time line of the story. Second, there is little dialog to explain what is happening. Third, maybe it's my hearing, but I couldn't understand much of what was being said. The actors seemed to be mumbling all the time. Fourth, can anyone do a movie about the colonization of America without the modern stereotypes of "Indians as spiritual and majestic, whites as crazed barbarians" ? The movie was so interminable that I finally just turned it off. First time I've posted a review on IMDb.com for a movie I didn't watch in its entirety but I felt I had to say something.