Mistake number one was having a sickly 71 year old man portray the key role of 30 year old William Bradford who became the colony's Governor. Good make-up and lighting can age a 30 year old actor into a senior citizen but it doesn't work the other way around. Inexplicably bad choice.
Mistake two was the dark, moody, often way out-of-focus photography that only draws attention to itself for no good reason.
Mistake three was a script that missed the message of why the Plymouth Colony succeeded better than most European settlements in the New World. It also failed to detail the symbiotic alliance between the Wampanoag natives and the English settlers.
For me, the only redeeming segment of the film was the interesting story of how Governor Bradford's detailed history of the Mayflower voyage and the Plymouth settlement was lost for a century and found only by accident.
There are other and much better versions of this story to be seen.
Mistake two was the dark, moody, often way out-of-focus photography that only draws attention to itself for no good reason.
Mistake three was a script that missed the message of why the Plymouth Colony succeeded better than most European settlements in the New World. It also failed to detail the symbiotic alliance between the Wampanoag natives and the English settlers.
For me, the only redeeming segment of the film was the interesting story of how Governor Bradford's detailed history of the Mayflower voyage and the Plymouth settlement was lost for a century and found only by accident.
There are other and much better versions of this story to be seen.