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Geronimo: An American Legend (Full Screen)

Jason Patric (Actor), Gene Hackman (Actor), Walter Hill (Director) | Format: DVD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Geronimo, May 1 2012
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Jim Turner "Princetonite" (Princeton BC Canada) - See all my reviews
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One of the best movies of this infamous Indian I have seen and a well done production with top rate actors to portray these people in history
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5.0 out of 5 stars Copper from Windsor, Dec 24 2010
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I have become really interested in Native American history lately, so I bought this movie to help me understand great leaders like Geromimo. Recently I went to Arizona and learned a little about the Native history in that area. When I watched the movie, some of that history was verified. This story was told from a soldier's perspective, who was sent by the government to capture Geronimo and get him to go to a reservation. This movie is not like the typical western where the government is the hero and the Indians are savages. It shows, what appears to be a true and unbias opinion of what really happened to the Native people. It still saddens me when I read or watch what happened to the Native people. It is a great movie.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A war drama that feels like a western pic., Mar 15 2004
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KENNY NG (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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Although the movie is based on a real U.S. Army campaign against the Apache, one feels like watching a well-made western. There are "battle scenes" that are really short skirmishes. Suprisingly, the best scene of cinematic violence is a shootout inside some bar, I mean saloon, between the heroes and a group of bounty hunters. (Hence, the title of this review.) Wes Studi plays Geronimo, an Apache shaman who refused to surrender to the U.S. and be assimilated. Being a farmer in an enclosed reservation was not his suit, nor was it for the small band of warriors who followed him as a renegade. Watching Studi, I can't help but think of his role as a Huron war party captain in "Last of the Mohicans." As in "Mohicans", Studi's character in "Geronimo" kills, both white soldiers and civilians, with cold blooded brutality. This film manages to romanticize Geronimo's noble but lost cause while also emphasizing that he and his warriors were merciless in combat and not above killing unarmed civilians.
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