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Product review: It isn't THAT terrible, as many critics and viewers have often said. The epic scope and attention to gritty and compelling detail are still here, left over from Dances With Wolves. But it doesn't rise much above that. The story is interesting but is handled clumsily, and some of the direction is painfully pretentious and silly. The performances aren't entirely lackluster (some of the secondary characters are fairly good, as in Dances With Wolves), but Costner is no more of a treat to watch than usual, still playing the same laid-back, good liberal with his typical hazy disregard of endowing the character he plays with anything other than his own aspiration to appear as a subtle, noble, romantic hero and love interest. There were a couple points where the film was really beginning to pull me in a bit, but this was almost unfailingly ruined by something silly and poorly done. On the whole, it's lukewarm at best.
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