Geronimo - An American Legend
by Walter Hill
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Actor: Gene Hackman, Jason Patric, Matt Damon, Robert Duvall, Wes StudiDirector: Walter Hill
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 115 minutes
Release Date: 1996-07-09
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Movie Review: Touching scenes and dialogues + Gripping acting + Good action = One of the 3 best western movies I've ever seen.
Summary: 4 Stars
It contains touching scenes and dialogues. For example, all the Apache Indian Scouts of the American Army were stripped of their guns and sent to "reservation area" after Geromino surrrendered. They were treated like traitors even though they had loyally served the Army.
In another scene, Geromino (Wes Studi) said "Do not hate each other. We have so few people left now".
In another one, Geromino asked Gen. George Crook (Gene Hackman) "Why your people have to take all the land? There is so much land. Why the Indians can't have any?"
The shooting scenes are fast, and deadly but there are few. This more a drama than an action Western.
The acting is gripping. Gene Hackman is convincing as Gen. George Crook. Jason Patric is so moving and admirable as the real Lt. Charles Gatewood. Wes Studi is physically and spiritually strong, emotionally-stirring with his words.
This movie contains many facts. For example, Lt. Charles Gatewood was deliberately sent to obscuration by a jealous General. Geromino died in reservation area. He was never allowed to leave it even though he was promised that in the treaty.
This is one of the 3 best western movies I've ever seen. The others are: Quigley Down under and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Summary of Geronimo - An American Legend
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 AxmakerDrama VHS Video
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