Hostile Territory
After returning home from the Civil War, Jack finds out his wife has died and his children, presumed orphans, are heading deep into the West aboard a train bound for hostile territories. To save his children, Jack teams up with a former soldier and a band of sharpshooting Native Americans with one goal - rescue his family.
Beautiful movie @Thatsinconceivable!
Loved the story, characters and beautiful music. I also really liked the pacing of this movie. It didn’t have long-drawn-out scenes. Moved quickly and to the point. Definitely check it out.
Could have been great @F D-A
With a better script and acting this movie could have been fantastic. Interesting story.
Low budget. Poor acting. Unrealistic. Too many historical inconsistencies. @BobPitts
Literally everything about this movie is painful to watch. Historical inconsistencies galore, Such as style of speech and grammar, Indian warfare scenes, clothing styles, etc. As for absurdly inconsistent and unrealistic depictions of racial relations between characters in this movie, let’s all recall that this story is a time piece, set during the 1860s for heaven sake. Let’s go over a few of those shall we? First off, I doubt very much that Negro children ever rode the orphan trains. Especially not in a mixed bag with, and unsegregated from white kids. Rare would the simple, frontier farmer be in those times, who would’ve gone down to the local railroad station in order to acquire a black child to be a part of his family. Also, no white soldiers would likely be interred in the same prison barracks in confederate prison camps, with their Negro counterparts. And very few black men would have dared to go riding around the country, casually gunning down white men. Even if they were confederate soldiers raping a black woman. These were racially intolerant times, even in the anti-slavery states and territories, and most black men, except perhaps active duty colored soldiers, who went riding about carrying weapons openly, would not likely be tolerated for very long by most white Americans of that era. Also, the fact that the black lady with the missing child is given a horse and is permitted to ride around freely with a group of soldiers is absurd to the point of being laughable. It is very unlikely that most men in the 1860s, either black or white, would have tolerated a woman of any color being raped openly without intervening on her behalf, to satisfy their sense of decency and propriety, at the very least, if she was a woman of color, But she would’ve been dropped off at the very first settlement, and she certainly would not have been given a horse for nothing, which was expensive to acquire in those days, just so she could tag along. Let’s face the facts. This was not the age of feminism. Women were not seen as equal to men in those days, even less so if they were women of color. and the depictions of Indian battles with the Apache and Cheyenne are laughably inaccurate to the point of being hysterical. are you telling me that the tribe that had the Mexicans quaking in fear for a hundred years, and who led the best Indian fighters in US Army on countless wild goose chases, being some of the most feared, cunning, ruthless, and deadly guerrilla fighters in history, would botch the simplest ambushes so thoroughly, and somehow fail to take the scalps a couple of amateurs blundering through their territory, and would end up being so easily ambushed and turned into buzzard bait themselves? The wagon train attack was equally as preposterous. First stop, I don’t recall hearing many accounts during the Indian wars where a lightly defended group of wagons was ambushed by a war party, and was so easily tucked down by a sniveling soldier who beg for mercy and offers them food. Most Native American war parties of that time would have attacked and slaughtered them before they had a chance to realize what was happening. at any rate, begging for mercy after the ambush was sprung was futile, and even the unlikely instance that the warriors in question could even understand English, and were inclined to listen, they would have held a person begging for peace as weak and contemptible, most likely they would have seen them as easy victims, and would have killed him and his family, and raided his wagons. at least that part turned out to be somewhat accurate for the time period. Also, what real person in their right mind would randomly open fire after peace was made, in a vain attempt to gun down the group of warriors that outnumbers you 15 to 1? It’s very bad story writing, and it doesn’t make any sense at all. In fact most of this movie does it make any sense. Altogether, it is profoundly ignorant to film a timepiece , and then take so many obvious liberties with historical facts, and to ignore so many of the most obvious details related to the era in question. It could’ve been a good movie. Unfortunately, it is a joke, and is painful, embarrassing, and a waste of time to watch.
Incredible @daniell!!!!!!
I was absolutely blown away! This is a beautiful story and I am so glad something like this was made!
Don’t Watch! @ROAD DOG 22
Terrible acting and directing.