Hostiles Movie Review 

I would like to admit the fact that I’m bias.  I grew up watching Westerns with my grandfather.  He passed away a few years ago and every time I watch a Western movies, I compare it to the Classics I watched with my Grandfather.  You know the classics I’m talking about; The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Tombstone, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.  So I hold Western movies to a higher standard.

Hostiles starts out with action.   A group of Indians take out an American (White) family.   And I mean they take out the entire family.  The kids, and father, everybody, but somehow the mother escapes.   They later in the film you see and group of cowboys killing an Indian family.  So the point is, to show there is evil on both sides.  And it brings up a great argument.  Who is right and who is wrong ? The cowboys or The Indians?

The film has a pacing problem.  Long chunks of the film happen with no action.  And the film seems like it’s setting up a more actions that never happens.  It’s very predictable, when Ben Foster’s character is introduced you know exactly what’s going to happen.   There is action in that scene but the writing is terrible.

The very end of the movie upset me.  I don’t want the give the ending away, but it very anticlimactic.  The last 10 minutes was frustrating and and last 10 seconds almost ruined the entire film for me.  If the last 10 seconds would have gone differently I would give this film 2 stars.  But, because they did the right thing for the last 10 seconds I give it 3 stars out of 5. Or a low GOOD rating.  This film could have easily just be ok or even bad if a few things happened.  But, at the same time if a few things were changed then this could have been a classic, and this Hostiles Movie Review would’ve gone differently .