One of the most breathtakingly beautiful sights I have ever seen (including reality), the visuals are truly stunning and beyond complaint. As I mentioned while watching it, “There could be no dialogue at all and I’d still want to watch the entire movie”.
Unfortunately, the visual display isn’t supported by dialogue that’s anything more than average, and the heavy-handedness of the rather obvious moral preaching (If you can’t spot the metaphors to reality, distant past and recent past, you need to read more American History) gets a bit tiresome after a while. Not that I don’t AGREE with it…but you don’t need to slam people over the head with the obvious parallels to reality.
Think of it sort of as a more ambitious but not as far-reaching sci-fi version of ‘Dances With Wolves’.
Grade: B
7/25/12: If you don’t mind obvious, this is as beautiful as it gets. Grade: B+