Scott Cooper’s new film Hostiles presents the wild west as a depressing, violent, sexist and racist place where everything sucks. It’s easy to believe but not very interesting to watch.
Christian Bale stars as Captain Joseph J. Blocker, a soldier who slaughtered many Native Americans because they slaughtered many white people, because they slaughtered many Native Americans, and so on and so forth. Blocker doesn’t particularly care if his people started it, he just hates Native Americans so much that when he’s ordered to escort Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), a dying war chief, to his burial ground, he does everything he can to get out of it, and only agrees when his pension is threatened.
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Christian Bale stars as Captain Joseph J. Blocker, a soldier who slaughtered many Native Americans because they slaughtered many white people, because they slaughtered many Native Americans, and so on and so forth. Blocker doesn’t particularly care if his people started it, he just hates Native Americans so much that when he’s ordered to escort Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), a dying war chief, to his burial ground, he does everything he can to get out of it, and only agrees when his pension is threatened.
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