Brutal and Raw

Rating: 7/10 (3 January 2019)

I have always been a fan of films featuring the American west in the 19th century but this movie was something else. The action takes place against a bleak wintery landscape. The violence between Indians and fur trappers is grim right from the beginning with quite a high death toll in the first 30 minutes of this excessively long film. The violence is probably one of the most realistic portrayals of this kind of conflict in cinema history. Sadly, the characters are rather one dimensional and we can't really warm to any of them. There's no humour or light relief anywhere to be had. It's a film I would watch only once.