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Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2002)

OK, you people who read internet movie reviews to decide whether they should see a movie...This film was like taking a big juicy bite out of a tasty Navajo taco and chewing the chile, beans and fry bread with relish then washing it all down with a cold beer...and for those of you not from the four corners area that means it was great.A lot of new age goofballs and bubbleheads like to think that Indians/Native Americans are all feathers and drums, and this movie is here to set them straight. "How is your white man?" Great line, really cracked me up, and made my Navajo blood simmer with joy. Great treatment of the theme of Native American/Japanese similarity, which is explored with genius (among other themes having to do with Native Americans returning from fighting in the Greatest Generation's War)in the NOVEL entitled CEREMONY by the MacArthur-grant, famous, prize-winning writer Leslie Marmon Silko. But you don't have to take my word for it! Check it out for yourselves. Face it America, your redneck hordes campaigned to kill all the Indians and push them into the desert. But the Navajos and the Pueblos and the others hung on like the tough MF's they are. So if you will permit me another LeVar Burton reference, Like Kunta Kinte their stories will be told from their point of view and awaken you to their absolute bravery and integrity fighting for an America that had attempted to poison and destroy them. But the movie is not angry. It simply is. There will always be wars and rumors of wars, so follow the Navajo example and choose peace and alliance when the time is right, my fellow internet browsers. (I just know some of you will go over to E-bay and buy some Navajo jewelry if you feel PC guilt.) Some say the violence is gratuitous. But, as usual, they are speaking gratuitously. John Woo is a student of Peckinpah...how the blood and guts fly! How black and white hats are mown down without editorial bias! No one is safe from death, and one can be eating off a plate in the morning and off the ground in the evening. I always say that portrayal of war must be visceral rather than antiseptically ideological--the evisceration scenes are the best of all in this regard! Admit it, reader, you like looking at people turned inside out by bombs and tenderized by bullets white munching popcorn in your movie seats...n'est-ce pas? Anyway such events were long ago and far away, and nothing like that happens nowadays, as my learned master, Duns Scotus, once said while pondering his navel. Camera work, acting, script, everything A+, and if you don't agree with me you are an insignificant nosepicker. And I hate nosepickers as much as I LOVE THIS MOVIE. GO SEE IT, AND NOT THE ONE WITH THE TALKING MUTT, YOUSE GUYS!!! I remain your humble servant,