The films means well. It was obviously influenced by the civil rights movement and anti colonial struggles in Vietnam and Algeria. So the Natives are first the victims of white racists and then a Native hero takes revenge. The film begins with a Navajo woman in a Navajo village being slaughtered by bandits turned mercenaries.
That's when the film starts to sabotage itself. Yeah, that's a tipi, like Plains tribes use. Not Navajo, who have wooden and dirt hogans built into the ground. The women, obviously Italians, wear the cliched headbands to hold their horsehair wigs. The buckskin miniskirts were amusing too.
Reynolds with his moptop wig, paisley shrt, and buckskin fringe looks closer to Sonny Bono, though in obvious bad tanning makeup. Reynolds claimed it was his worst film. But at least half his films were worse than this, just awful.
NJ is not bad in some parts. The score by Morricone is great as usual. The graphic violence against the bandits feels well deserved. There are a few twists. But it sure can't be mistaken for true history.
That's when the film starts to sabotage itself. Yeah, that's a tipi, like Plains tribes use. Not Navajo, who have wooden and dirt hogans built into the ground. The women, obviously Italians, wear the cliched headbands to hold their horsehair wigs. The buckskin miniskirts were amusing too.
Reynolds with his moptop wig, paisley shrt, and buckskin fringe looks closer to Sonny Bono, though in obvious bad tanning makeup. Reynolds claimed it was his worst film. But at least half his films were worse than this, just awful.
NJ is not bad in some parts. The score by Morricone is great as usual. The graphic violence against the bandits feels well deserved. There are a few twists. But it sure can't be mistaken for true history.