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Hostiles Movie Review

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Hostiles Written & Directed by Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace, Crazy Heart) Starring Christian Bale (The Fighter, The Flowers of War) Scott Shepherd (Bridge of Spies, Side Effects) Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Pride & Prejudice) Ava Cooper (Black Mass) Stella Cooper (Black Mass) & David Midthunder (Into The West, Longmire). 

In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.

Scott Cooper and Christian Bale team up again for Hostiles and I’ll start this off by saying this movie felt really really long. Kinda felt like it was 2 movies in one but the character arcs for RosaMund Pike and Christian Bale with where they start and where they end up was really good. This movie is brutal and the ending is something I did not see coming at all. I love Christian Bale in westerns the problem with this film at times is that the facial hair covers up some of the characters mouth to the point where if you don’t understand what they are saying you get confused because you are also unable to read their lips when they are saying it. The movie is shot very well it’s really beautiful but sometimes there are a lot of still shots that just hold for too long and become redundant. 

This is mostly a journey movie I will say that it is not as dark as Out of the Furnace was but it is a dark film and although this movie is about Christian Bale and Rosamund pikes journey they completely make the native Americans nothing more but stand ins and were never fully flushed out rather than giving us more of who the characters are. Ben Foster also shows up in this film which is great because he is an amazing actor. There is a lot of murder in this movie and it showcases that this place where there is no civilizations how heartless humans can be and this takes it to another level. This reminds me of a western version of the revenant but more cruel. 

Final Thoughts: great acting with amazing shots. A little too long with not enough flushing out of certain characters. This movie is very brutal it starts off with brutality and it never lets up for a second. Christian Bale is phenomenal in this film and shows why he is one of the best actors of our generation. 

Final Score: 7/10

Rotten tomatoes Score: 73%

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