Your heart dances too! - Dances With Wolves Reviews

I had heard about Dances With Wolves awhile back, when I saw it at Best Buy. It looked like a decent movie, but I wasn't interested in seeing it. Months later, I was at Costco with my mom and her friend. My mom saw Dances With Wolves, ans said she'd buy it since it was cheap. I really didn't care, because I wanted to watch something new. So, I popped the sucker in and relaxed. I was a little hesitent, so I watched the trailer for it to see what it was about. The instant the trailer was finished, I pressed "play movie". This was my kind of movie! I watched half of it, then watched the rest in the morning. I was amazed. Not only does your spirit dance, your heart dances too! Dances With Wolves is about a solider named Lieutenant Dunbar. Thanks to his failed suicide run, his side won the battle. He is proclaimed a hero and told that he would be accepted at any fort. Instead, Dunbar requests to go to the frontier and make a fort there. His presence attracts the attention of a tribe of Sioux indians. He is soon accepted into their tribe. Dunbar learns there language, lives with them, and marries one of them. The story is a living masterpiece. It combines a bunch of Civil War movies and indian movies, and completely gives it a makeover. The result is a heart-pounding thrill ride about a man, and how his decisions shape his destiney. I like Kevin Costner (The Guardian, Waterworls, J.F.K.). He is a brilliant actor, and carries on that legacy as Dunbar. His actions and facial expressions are really expressive. We can see the emotions that are running throughout his body if we look in his eyes. Mary McDonnell plays Stands With a Fist. Her role is very hard to play, because she has to love and mourn at the same time. McDonnell pulls off the role and adds extra spices to it. Even the supporting actors make the best of their roles, even if they are small ones. Not only is Kevin Costner a brilliant actor, he is also a brilliant director. The script is top notch, with some of the most simplest and most powerful lines ever introduced on film. One of my favorite parts in the movie, is at the very end when an indian stands at the top of a cliff and shouts "can you not see that Dances With Wolves is my friend, and I am his". That is a line that made me stare at the screen in awe. The score is amazing! The music is incredible as it is short. It doesn't matter, because the score will possibly won't be noticed because of the beautiful scenery. The visuals are absolutely mind-blowing. The art direction and cinematogrophy are no doubt the best. The enviroments seem real, and the indian camps look like they were pulled out of a great John Wayne movie. The dead animals are amazing and disturbing to look at. The fatal wounds on the dead bodies look awesome. Dances With Wolves is for ages 15 and up. There many bloody battles and deaths. Characters are killed, including animals. A character commits suicide (off-screen). White people are cruel to the animals and usually shoot at them, kill them, and sometimes butcher them. There is some brief swearing, and some crude humor. There is some nudity and sexual (sometimes explicit) situations. The indians smoke a lot, and characters drink. Overall, Dances With Wolves is a fascinating and powerful motion picture event. The story is powerful as it is disturbing, Kevin Costner gives the performance of his career, Kevin Costner proves he is an amazing director, and the visuals are truly worthy of recognition. Dance to Best Buy and get this movie, because I give Dances With Wolves an A+. -criticat13