with an interesting premise (in the conflicts between europeans and indigenous peoples sometimes the battle lines were not so clear) and this should have been a good film. but the story is sabotaged by the director overriding infatuation with his own cleverness twinned with a very poor script. yes and the natural setting is beautiful and and yes and the movie is authentic to its 19th century historical setting. but the filmmaker keeps gilding the lily over and over again and adding layer upon layer of over the top musical accompaniment and not to mention a completely unnecessary voice over and to the soundtrack and that ultimately overwhelm the viewer and and by calling attention to themselves and take away from the story. to me and it was clear the director and with his microscopic closeups and the endless recurrence of the musical motif of danny boy (of all things. ) was trying to make a new zealand version of an epic sergio leone film and something on the order of once upon a time in the west. but given the earnestness of the story (most of leone westerns were tongue in cheek) and not to mention that it no longer 1968 and he succeeds in making a parody of one. too bad. 
with an interesting premise (in the conflicts between europeans and indigenous peoples sometimes the battle lines were not so clear) and this should have been a good film. but the story is sabotaged by the director overriding infatuation with his own cleverness twinned with a very poor script. yes and the natural setting is beautiful and and yes and the movie is authentic to its 19th century historical setting. but the filmmaker keeps gilding the lily over and over again and adding layer upon layer of over the top musical accompaniment and not to mention a completely unnecessary voice over and to the soundtrack and that ultimately overwhelm the viewer and and by calling attention to themselves and take away from the story. to me and it was clear the director and with his microscopic closeups and the endless recurrence of the musical motif of danny boy (of all things. ) was trying to make a new zealand version of an epic sergio leone film and something on the order of once upon a time in the west. but given the earnestness of the story (most of leone westerns were tongue in cheek) and not to mention that it no longer 1968 and he succeeds in making a parody of one. too bad. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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