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'Comanche Moon' is uninspired, disjointed, and generally lame. CM repeatedly introduces new characters and new subplots without actually introducing them. Even though I read the book (and liked it) only about six weeks ago, there were several points where it wasn't clear at first who one of the actors was supposed to be.
Low energy seems to be the keynote for many of the performances. Wes Studi (Buffalo Hump), Adam Beach (Blue Duck), and even Karl Urban (Woodrow Call) seem to be just going through the motions. Val Kilmer (Inish Scull) also phones in a low energy performance. Physically, he looks like he's spent the last two years drinking and/or overeating. David Midthunder as "Famous Shoes" is completely lame. It's incomprehensible how he got the part.
CM begins with a scene that was not in the book. The scene I'm referring to is a depiction of the "Council House Fight" in 1840,a famous atrocity committed by the Texans against the Comanches. OK, fair enough, but CM gives the impression that this was how the Texan-Comanche War started. It's simply NOT true. The war began four years earlier in 1836 with the Comanche surprise attack on Parker's Fort, a small hamlet 100 miles outside the Comanche border. This is outrageous; if they're going to add material that was not in the book, then they had a moral obligation to tell the WHOLE TRUTH!!!
CM's omission of essential historical data lowers the project to the level of cheap propaganda.
score 4/10
Eradan 14 January 2008
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14-10-2020 02:01:16