Yellow Rock

The historical information questionable, which was displayed in the narrative by the native American at the beginning of the movie (Was it the white man who began scalping, or the native American?...Did the native Americans really live in PEACE before the white came?...Seems that they were always fighting with other and taking other tribal members into slavery...) Also, the dialog was not good, the Dr.'s outfit seemed tailored, the boards were cut mostly clean through as with a table saw or ban saw, the intonation of the dialog was inappropriate, and the Dr.'s hair was dyed red...she looked too old to have non-gray hair. Also, the guy who drank all the time clearly tried to take after Val Kilmer in Tombstone...very bad imitation. The tribe coming at the end and shooting the one man without even knowing what happened with the others seemed a little strange. I think I wasted my money.

This film begins with five cowboys riding into a sleepy town somewhere in the Southwest and upon dismounting head to the local saloon. Once inside the leader of the group named "Max Dietrich" (James Russo) inquires about the location of a man named "Tom Hanner" (Michael Biehn) and upon finding out heads over to the local church. Its then that Max asks Tom to help him and his companions to find his brother and son who have disappeared a week ago somewhere in Indian Territory. Tom agrees and realizing that he must first get permission from the Tribal elders goes to see a woman by the name of "Sarah Taylor" (Lenore Andriel) who has won the trust and confidence of that specific tribe. But what neither Tom nor Sarah realize is that Max hasn't told them the entire truth and that selfless actions will soon have real consequences. Now rather than reveal the rest of the story I will just say that this turn out to be a rather typical Western film produced during this time period which consists of lesser known actors working within the framework of a rather thin and politically correct plot which makes heavy use of certain stereotypes. Not surprisingly, it isn't one of the better Westerns ever produced. It does, I suppose, have some entertaining value and for that reason I have rated it as just slightly below average.

"I don't give a damn about those Indians, all I care about is finding my brother and the boy." When Max Dietrich's (Russo) brother and son go missing he sets out to find them. When he gets to the town of Yellow Rock he hires Tom Hanner (Biehn) to guide him to where his brother is. After meeting up with a doctor and getting permission from the tribe's elders they set out on the path to find them. Against the wishes of the Indian guide with them they pass through a sacred burial ground. I'll save you the "western genre is dead" speech, but again this is another movie that isn't terrible but is a B-movie at best. The idea is neat and the cast actually has people that I've heard of but like most westerns lately this one is very slow moving and not really worth watching more then once. Little by little it seems like western movies are starting to get better, but at this pace it will have a full revival in the year 2067. Overall, not as bad as most of the new westerns that have been made and worth watching, but don't expect amazing. I give it a B-.

To me personally it was better than some other westerns I have seen. It was slow to start but it eventually caught up. I originally watched it because of Michael Biehn was in it. But I thought it was good enough to watch. I don't watch movies due to any historical value I watch for entertainment. I loved that the movie was based on part of the American Indian perspective. Would I watch this again? Yes I would watch it. I was in an old west class in high school and they had us read poems from the Indian point of view. What I had read saddened me and to watch this it brought it all back. Again, why only the one star? I think that some of the acting in the movie was really sub-par by a couple of the actresses but other than that it was not too bad.

I never seen such BS propaganda in my entire life except in the old Soviet Union. Replace noble Indians+female dogooders with noble workers (proletarians) and greedy white evil males with greedy capitalists and you will get good Soviet movie tailored according to the cliches of Socialist Realism. In this movie you will be exposed to the mosaic of wooden schematic characters (and played badly) that fit required ideological norms. I almost puked by the end of this movie. This "masterpiece" is an excellent window into the minds of the makers of the movie are literally trapped into the Multikulti ideology that still dominates our mainstream (noble polite Native Americans who are stewards of nature and who are never greedy, their allies (noble female caretakers and an accidental male misfit) and evil greedy violence-prone white males. The material and caricature characters simply beg for a good critical review that will disect and make fun of them.