Terrible it starts well then just becomes more and more disappointing with some terrible acting and an ending that felt like a child wrote it.

Not a bad film if you never intend to read the book. it is fairly close to the book's tale, but the drama and scale of the adventure is lost. However if the story had stayed closer to the book it could have been a true epic. I imagine budget did not allow for more spectacular scenes? But perhaps with some brilliant CGI something closer to the original story would have been possible? I was disappointed.

I had little to no expectations going into this movie, and with that, I was pleasantly surprised. Still not a great movie nor a masterpiece, however it was good and really intense. I recommend it!

It's got some great acting and a solid premise, but it does lose itself a little with a disappointing ending and themes that aren't really supported as well as they could be.

The unique subject matter of buffalo hunting has some light shown on it and manages to not entirely bore. Plot, dialogue, conflict, and consequences are all basic and minimal. Not a great deal of tension either. The acting carries it.

Watched on tiptoe. Very cruel and interesting mobie. Good

The young people behind the film have done a great job and it can be seen in this film. I liked it very much.

Such interesting visual aspects and characters are involved in this movie.

An interesting tale of compulsion and the end of the buffalo harvest. The history seemed accurate. I found it enjoyable.

This movie is very good at showing the environmental ignorance of humans. Decimating herds of buffalo for monetary gain. It shows the cold hearts of how people used to exploit nature along with the associated risks. Not a bad western, but I found the slaughter of innocent animals offensive.

Another slow burn movie where nothing really happens. Guys just sit around talking for 2 hours and then it ends. No idea why "critics" score these non-entertaining movies so highly.

What's the story about? The bison or the harvard dropout? Neither got the treatment they needed to make this an epic tale of loss.

The cinematography is great... and that's where the accolades end. The script is incredibly weak and flat. The dialogue is clunky and sometimes hard to watch. The actors don't help the script at all, many of the actors fail in delivery of most of their lines. Cage gives an ok performance, not his best, but not terrible either.

Really nice beautifully shot film with some terrific performances especially by Nicolas Cage and his young protige, not sure why general consensus is so bad not everything has to be overpowering and aimed for the fences this is a nice film for a rainy afternoon.

This movie would have been more promising if it didn't have such a goofy and uninspiring main character Will Andrews, played by Fred Hechinger. Will makes the first 17 minutes of the movie drag by walking around town awkwardly smiling at everyone...I actually recommend you just scroll to 17 minutes to cut out the unnecessary scenes the editor should have cut out. I get that they wanted a young and experienced city slicker typecast, but Hechinger went full goober...never go full goober. The rest of the acting and dialogue by everyone including Nicholas is very mechanical and unnatural for the first third of the film. No pauses or natural tone inflections...just actors delivering their scripted lines back and forth at eachother like ping pong. The cinematography is ok during some of the wide open prairie scenes, but the scenes in town look like low-budget Hallmark 온라인카지노추천 special shots. A lot of the movie is very disjointed. One shot we see Will on his horse, and the next second we see him face down in a puddle and drowning?...only to be pulled up by Nicolas Cage telling him not to disappear. Wait, what? Zero transition between Will being on a horse to drowning in a puddle and no further explanation of what just occured. It's like they gave certain script and editing choices to an intern or someone's nephew. Then Will waits until he's way out in the thick of everything to ask Cage "Why hunt buffalo?" You mean you didn't think to ask that question back in town before you gave Cage your entire life savings to fund the expedition?...smart move! The acting does improve slightly mid-film. There are plenty of shots of nature and buffalo, and then there's a feel for the wild West...all loosely held together by the peculiarity of Nicholas Cage to keep the film just interesting enough to not turn off, but if you're looking for the next The Revenant, this definitely isn't it. (Oh, and I forgot to mention at one point we see Will having a nightmare of Cage doggy-styling the town whore that Will had feelings for, and then it cuts to Cage savagely biting into buffalo liver with a crazed look in his eye...that was sure to cinch the Oscar in the bag).

Absolute garbage. Terrible over exaggerated acting. No context, no real storyline, impossible scenarios. The entire section where they get stranded in the mountains is ridiculous. It just shows a couple second of of nighttime then daytime then scenes without snow, scenes with snow over and over, no substance. Miraculously they survive an entire winter without shelter, just some hides, a wagon, some beans and an occasional deer. When they leave to return to town they somehow have double the amount of hides that they collected before winter. And suprise, their horses and mules have returned to them after being turned loose to fend for themselves all winter. The now over full wagon and the driver fall off a cliff as others watch without any emotion. There was ample time for the driver to jump off but he just kept yelling for help as it rolled backwards. However, in the shot showing the wagon fall, there clearly is no driver shown. Not even a poorly made dummy.

Kind of tough to review this. It's not an action movie and Cage doesn't "go nuts" and give us a fun ride. But it is an interesting portrayal of a weird moment in American history when the buffalo is hunted to extinction and the American West was a beautiful untamed place. So the cinematography is worth a watch and the story is okay, but as others have said, the story is more suited to a 온라인카지노추천 movie of the week than a major motion pic.

This movie provides viewers with an excellent portrayal of a bloody, cruel, and often overlooked part of American history. I've read about this period but to see it embodied in a film is much more powerful and appropriate. Gives a visceral rendition of the history of the butchering of the buffalo and has historical photos as well as facts laced in. A great use of the film medium. I do not ever watch Westerns or tend to enjoy them. This one is in a category unto itself.

A successful cautionary tale against greed. Nicholas Cage delivered, of course. Wilderness and wildlife cinematography was incredible. Some parts of the movie were uneven and felt unfocused, but it never stayed boring for long. Altogether it was a satisfying watch, one that seems underrated and underappreciated by audiences.

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