Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Did you people see the same film I saw?

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

...to even trust a thing about this movie. I don't believe I've ever seen more relatives, friends and/or the filmmakers themselves try to weight the reviews and ratings for a movie more egregiously than this. Each 10 star review is written to one of two exact same formats, using the exact same style and praising the exact same things about the movie; even one of the reviewer's last name was the same as the family of filmmakers who produced this well meaning but gigantic yawn of a film.Like I said, the film is at least well meaning and inoffensive. If that is all you require for your viewing pleasure, then go for it. But there are enough good films out there, even family and/or Christian oriented ones, to occupy the little time we all have to spend on entertainment. Don't waste a precious 1 hour and 23 minutes of your life on semi- professional movie-making that will leave you scratching your head over the plot and mourning the death of your brain cells.

OK a hundred things wrong with this movie; and a hundred things right. But, in the end everything works out the way everyone wants. The high point of the film is David Carradine, an exceptionally under-rated actor. His character transformation is too sudden, but hey John Ford didn't direct this. There is nice cinematography and good acting all around, backed by a story that is fairly believable and satisfying. Wouldn't watch it again, but didn't feel cheated watching it this time.

This film was shown at our Church's Movie Night and was very well received. Not only was the scenery beautiful, but there were many moral messages shown through several of the characters. The friendship of a young boy with an Idian boy and survival of that relationship through difficulties caused by others was heartwarming. Personality traits of all of us are depicted in the various characters. We are shown that forgiveness is possible in extremely trying situations. There was a broad range of emotions including humorous incidents which added to the content. The music was excellent and added to the tone of the scenes. A few scenes might be a bit too violent for younger viewers.

From reading previous comments it seems as though every relative, friend, and casual acquaintance of anyone even remotely connected with this movie has pulled out every superlative in the book to recommend it.In actual fact this is a slow, plodding, uneventful film without out a single character to identify with. It has too many characters -- none of which have really been developed sufficiently for us to care about any of them -- too many stories going on at the same time, and too many clichés. Add to this continual references to God and prayer and one gets the feeling we're being not so subtly preached to.We'd all like to see clean and wholesome family oriented movies but that doesn't mean we'll settle for substandard fare.A fine cast is totally wasted here. Rent this film before you consider buying it. I'm betting you won't put out money to own it.