STUDI GIVES A STUNNING PERFORMANCE AS THE FEARLESS WARRIOR WHO WAS THE LAST INDIAN LEADER TO SURRENDER TO THE WHITE MAN. BETRAYED BY THE ARMY’S LEGENDARY INDIAN FIGHTER GENERAL GEORGE CROOK, GERONIMO LEADS A SMALL BAND OF WARRIORS IN ESCAPE.Walter Hill’s revisionist take on the American cavalry’s campaign to capture renegade Chiricahua Apache warrior Geronimo (Wes Studi) is, like Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, a dark tale that both celebrates and critiques myths of the American West. Despite its title, Geronimo is really about the American cavalry officers who undertake the responsibility of recapturing the warrior, in particular the young narrator Lt. Charles Gatewood (Jason Patric), a Civil War hero who respects the great Geronimo and brokers a treaty with the Chiricahua, only to see it collapse when the army kills the tribal medicine man. Gene Hackman plays Gen. George Crook, the proud but sympathetic officer charged with bringing in the renegades who take to hills after the killing. Robert Duvall, the tough, racist army scout and Indian fighter Charlie Sieber, practically steals the picture with his cagey, underplayed performance. More complex and complicated than most Westerns, this is a Walter Hill film through and through: lean, ironic, beautiful to look at (it was shot on location against the astounding landscape of southeastern Utah), and driven by a wonderful Ry Cooder score. Don’t confuse this with the 1993 TNT cable film by the same name; it confounded many viewers at the time of its release and may have been at least partially responsible for its box-office disappointment. –Sean Axmaker
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March 18, 2008
#1
Geronimo was a renegade Chiricahua Apache warrior but not the tribal leader. He was in fact a war chief and medicine man with an uncanny ability to elude the US Cavalry. This movie might be made well but I’ll never know because I won’t watch any film so historically inaccurate. The cast includes all the major characters of this very real part of American history except the most important one other than Geronimo himself. Tom Horn. Trained by Al Sieber as a civilian scout and known as “Talking Boy” to the Chiricahua Apaches because he spoke their language better than any white man ever did, including Al Sieber whom he replaced as Chief Civilian Scout when Sieber retired. Tom Horn was the only man able to track Geronimo and twice talked the great Chiricahua Apache warrior into surrendering himself to the US Military authorities. I suggest that anyone interested in this part of American history should read Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter by Tom Horn. It’s not great literature but it was written by the man himself. A man that Geronimo greatly respected and many white historians seem to want history to forget. Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter
March 18, 2008
#2
i bought this dvd for my boyfriend for christmas because he had it on vhs, but couldn’t find it on dvd. so this was a great gift, and he really enjoyed it.
March 18, 2008
#3
This is a great addition to your DVD collection. It is full of great actors and is done very well. We enjoyed it.
March 18, 2008
#4
This is a well-written and historically accurate account of the treatment of the Apache indian Geronimo. It may come across a shock to some who were not aware of the illegal and immoral treatment of the American indians in general and Geronimo in particular. Notice how sad the Apache are at the end of the DVD, once they realize that they have been overpowered, coerced into submission then imprisoned for life by Americans in pursuit of their “Manifest Destiny.”
March 18, 2008
#5
This is a bithday present for my husband his b0dat is in Oct. so he has not recieved the movie as of now. But he has watch it on cable and told me he wish he could watch the whole thing. He seems just to get in a little bit here and there. He loved the parts he saw so I am sure he will relly love the whole movie.
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