Hostiles

[CBStew]

Christian "I'm Batman" Bale portrays a jaded American captain serving in New Mexico with two months to go before his 20 year retirement and claim to a pension.  He is given an assignment to guard a dying Native American chief who has been in custody back to Wyoming.  (I am not sure why the Chief is being sent back to his home.  Seems like a lot of trouble for someone who is considered a criminal and is going to die soon.)  The detachment runs into all sorts of trouble that anyone in the audience could have warned Bale about.  Did I mention that Bale's character hates Native Americans?  Something that struck me when the movie was over is that they traveled consistently across the screen from right to left, which for me heightened the sense that they were going from south to north.  The star of the film throughout was the landscape.  The photography left anything the John Ford did in the dust.  Literally.  Rosamund Pike plays a woman whom they pick up along the way.  Her family has been slaughtered by Comanches and she is a babbling idiot, until she snaps out of it and becomes a heroine, of course.   If this review sounds sarcastic, that is just my personality.  Ignore the my review and go see the movie.  It will cost you more than $8 dollars.  I don't know where Andy got that $8 ticket price.  It must be left over from when he was a fan of Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Something that struck me when the movie was over is that they traveled consistently across the screen from right to left, which for me heightened the sense that they were going from south to north.

The director was clearly a fan of Lawrence of Arabia.

[Quality Start Machine]

Something that struck me when the movie was over is that they traveled consistently across the screen from right to left, which for me heightened the sense that they were going from south to north.

The director was clearly a fan of Lawrence of Arabia.

He's an English guy, he came to fight the Turkish.