This movie is so bad, that it made me do something I usually don't do - comment on it publicly. I mean there are probably people like me who think that any movie with Christian Bale is worth watching. People who appreciate a movie that is demanding and takes up a serious topic. People who are patient and understand that sometimes the director wants you to immerse in the movie, take it slowly, to feel it and be touched by it. People who believe, that there is a reason for all that, because at the end there is that rewarding feeling, that you have just witnessed something great. Watching Hostiles you will feel anticipation that will never be appeased. It's a boring, epic wannabe flick, that you will forget 5 minutes after watching and will be mad at yourself that you didn't stare into a fishtank instead. I have seen movies with mediocre actors and a great script, that saved the day. But there is not one movie worth remembering, that had even the greatest of the great actors playing, but a bad script. That said, I'll now pretend that this movie and those two long hours never happened. You have been warned.

A lot of folks commentin' its a slow movie and that there's not much going on... I say it is a slow burn but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot going on. If you were to diagram out all the dynamics going between the relationships of the characters and how that changes during the film I think you'd see an intricate tapestry. There's many call backs to Classic Western films, Stagecoach (1939), Unforgiven (1992) come to mind. I would like to give this film a higher rating and may do so later but a couple of plot points seemed a bit wonky to me ... like if [spoiler] escorting the Chief was so important, why give it to Ross with his background? Maybe I missed that. [/spoiler]... So I gave it an "8" meaning I'd gladly watch it again; it's a film that deserves further investigation, critique and therefore, praise.

Visually beautiful film and the performances are great, especially from Bale. However, the pace is slow as molasses in the first 3/4s of the movie.

Thought this was great. Don't like how westerns a lot of the time are over-the-top or cliche on various aspects of the time period, whether the hero, Indians or brutality. This movie has some of that, but I thought balanced decently with originality. Christian Bale was very good. Made me wish it was a Netflix original TV series that went on, exploring that world with the same quality as the movie.

Christian Bale is really good and there are a lot of familiar faces in the supporting cast too. The movie is too long and slow though. There are some tense moments and man, can they be brutal, but there is too much time between them.