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Also Known As: Feinde |
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| Year of first release: 2017 | |
| Director: Scott Cooper | |
| Actors: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Western, Drama | |
| Conditions of visioning: 28.05.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English/Cheyenne version with German subtitles | |
| Synopsis: In 1892, after nearly two decades of fighting the Cheyenne, the Apache, and the Comanche natives, the United States Cavalry Captain and war hero, Joseph Blocker (Bale), is ordered to escort the Cheyenne chief, Yellow Hawk (Studi) to his ancestral home in Montana's Valley of the Bears. Confronted to the dilemma between his warrior anger and the progressist political order, Jo and his team travel through the West and meet different type of hostility. When the widowed settler, Rosalie Quaid (Pike), is taken in by the band of soldiers, Cheyenne and WASPs experience also compassion to the suffering of each other. | |
| Review: After the first scenes and encounter with each character, the rest of the movie is quite predictable and indeed, no surprise is coming. SPOILER The bad Comanches will die, Captain Jo and Rosalie Quaid will get closer, the old Cheyenne will end on his land. The first scene is quite harsch and has is counterpart at the very end. The good thing in the story is the acceptance that both sides have hate, show hostility but can also show empathy and compassion. Only some Comanches and white cowboys are presented as absolutely bad and devil. The character of Jo is quit interesting because he is the one confronted to the dilemma and we feel it from his acting. Rosamund Pike's character almost only screams and whines. If this was intentional probably to show the women as weak and desperate. The very early death of the Frenchie acted by Thimothée Chalamet is almost funny as it exaggerates the darwinian vision of the wild west. The first to die is the weak. The movie has good intentions but lacks of originality. Really for Western fans. |
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Rating: 5 /10
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
Hostiles (2017)
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Thumbs up for noticing how annoying Rosamund Pike´s acting was... I have been already wondering if I am really that biased because of the abundance of female characters that are seeminlgy there only to frustrate the audience... yet another dame in distress that needs to be saved and can´t control her emotional reactions.
ReplyDeleteI am not the biggest fan of the film, as I tend to concetrate on the plot and a message it has to send above anything else, and I didn´t find anything new in "Hostiles". A harsh opening, mediocre development and a devastatingly lame ending. I cannot hate it, however, cause the journey is beautifully shot, the music score fits perfectly and Bale, as much as the tacky script allows him to, gives a really solid performance.
All in all: a typical, pretty well done tale of a ungrounded hatred turning into mutual respect, coming to terms with new-found reality. A tale, that you are most likely to very soon forget.