Dearest Longviews Listener,

if you’re thinking of going to see this film because you’re excited to see your favorite Native actor, or you’re simply interested in seeing how a mainstream film will depict a largly unidentified Native tribe, save your time and your money. It’s not worth it. All you need to do is listen to the following interviews with Jay Tavare and Russell Means to know that your time need not be wasted nor your eyeballs seared with too fast action, poor blocking, cloying musical orchestration, simpy dialogue, poorly lit fight scenes, and the sight of a ruddy skinned and lumbering Karl Urban. How anyone thought this guy could carry a film is beyond me. Worse still, is employing a cast of (actually) talented actors (save the Maxim chick) and not doing anything with them.

Tsk tsk. Now let this be a lesson, for no studio should give a music video director free reign over thirty million for any kind of feature length movie, especially not a music video director whose list of credits includes the name, Amy Grant. No really, I kid you not. But the film’s release did offer us the opportunity to speak with the ever gracious Jay Tavare and the original wandering bear, Russell Means.