THE STORY:  The one thing i'll miss about my job when I leave it is that I get to meet a lot of people from different places. Recently i met someone from Montana. The first person I have ever met from Montana! When i asked her what reason did she have for joining the military she told me "I had to get out of montana!" I don't blame her if montana is anything like it is in this movie. I normally don't read other reviews of movies I'm currently judging. But I wanted to find out something particular about this movie on the IMDb and the next thing you know i'm reading roger ebert's review of it.  Well, me and rog see eye to eye on this one. Before I get into this I just want to let everyone know that I'm no paragon of political correctness, but I try to tread lightly over peoples sensibilities. Therefore I may use the term Indian in lieu of Native american. There. See, i'm a sensitive new age guy, see!? (right)

Get one thing straight...not one person in this flick was likable. I mean it. I hate that. I just didn't give a [unwrite] about any of them. Sonny and his friend skitty are indians living on a reservation in Montana. The town is filled with hate filled white people. Another indian guy named lewis has an argument with a white guy named calvin over a pool game. A few days later at a reenactment of a battle between the indians and the cavalry, Calvin loads his pistol with real bullets and blasts a hole in Lewis's head. This makes sonny go on the warpath and he kills calvin. then sonny, skitty, warren and a few other indians head for the hills.

Why? Calvin killed their friend in PUBLIC. He fired a weapon at Sonny and Sonny split his head open for it. Why run? is the town so racist, are the chances of fair justice so low, that sonny figures its better to run than to go to the law? I guess so....as i said, if Montana is really like this I ain't bringing my black ass there...because almost instantly local yokels are forming posses and hunting for the guys.

Thats pretty much the plot of this movie. The rest is easily figured out. The part that Mr. ebert and myself were upset about is that the characters are fkat. If you're a white person in this movie uyou automatically hate all indians. If you're an indian you can't trust any white people at all. thats so wrong...take me for example...I don't trust ANYONE! but for Inferno purposes theres more....the two main characters suck.

Sonny: Perhaps he's supposed to be the main protagonist, but I don't see why he ran after the big hoo-hah with Calvin. Sonny doesn't seem to have a personality. He's angry with his father for because he thinks his dad is a pussy, but still. He just comes off as an angry and clueless doofus.

Skitty- Oh, how i hate that name. What man anywhere would let themselves be called skitty? At least a 3rd of this movies dumbness has to do with Skitty. He's played by Kevin Dillon, the brother of Matt dillon. Yeah, a white guy. Thats like getting John lithgow to play the token black.

Overall, i'd suggest staying away from this movie. It doesn't do anything for anything. Its not an actoin movie (if it was it may have fared better.) and its not a drama...'cuz you need charaterization for drama. This movie is just there like a cow patty in a field..stinking up your video store.

Best Lines: "You're an indian! Not Superman!"- Skitty to an injured Warren.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?:

1.) So Calvin's revenge was to just shoot Lewis in cold blood during the reenactment. You know, there are people that stupid in real life, and they should all be sterilized to keep them from contaminating the gene pool. Even from a criminals point of view that was an enormously stupid plan. It wouldn't be too hard for the police to find out which gun fired the shot and since Calvin and Lewis had an altercation in public...and Calvin swore revenge in front of witnesses, he'd be the first guy the cops would look for. Of course, Sonny and his bunch weren't brain surgeons either. Sonny killed Calvin, but calvin did shoot at him, too. A halfway decent lawyer could have got him off of that one.

2.) The mayor of this town is a real doozy. I guess he doesn't get out among his population too much or he'd know about the underlying racial tensions in the town. If he knew about that, he'd know that a reenactment of a battle between the indians and the calvary probably isn't a good thing! I mean, do you think the mayor of Birmingham alabama would try to bolster tourist trade by reenacting the bombing of the church from the 60's? Old wounds don't make the best entertainment.

3.) This town really does mistreat the indians! they have absolutely no security at the "Indian Museum" . skitty and sonny break in and easily steal some items. They even dick around for awhile before leaving. Geez...ever heard of alarms, guys?

4.) I'm not going to bother to try and find out Kevin dillon's lineage, but I'm betting theres a good chance that i have more Native american blood in me than he does. I just hate it when actors play people of races that they aren't. I just know there had to be at least one native american actor out there that could have played skitty. So why cast a white guy that sounds like he's from freakin' New Jersey? Its not just Native americans that get this....a month ago I watched The curse of King Tut's Tomb...guess who played an arab worker/henchmen guy? TOM BAKER! Yeah, that Tom Baker...Doctor Who! Now given the cast had about a hundred arabs in it, why get Baker to play one? Whats next in the future of getting name recognition? Pat morita as frederick douglas?

NUDITY AND SEX:  none

HUH?:  Unable to catch the War Party the governor orders in the national guard. What kind of monkey [unwrite] is that? The National Guard!? To catch Three Guys? Maybe i should run for governor of montana. If its like this movie I'd be Einstien compared to anyone else living there.

So Skitty and Sonny ask to talk to someone about what they should do when the authorities have them trapped. Who do they ask for? The old drunk guy! Uhhh...right. I knew a lot of Old Wino dudes growing up, but if i was in a pinch like that the last guy I want advice from is ol' Southern Comfort Sippin' Sylvester from down the street.

The authorities in this movie are piss poor. The townspeople are divided in two gtoups...Indians and non-indians. Unofficial posses are formed to hunrt down the boys. Thats pretty bad. I ask again...didn't trhe mayor know his town know of the racail unrest in it? He must have! so he either didn't care enough to try improve relations or he just completely failed at it!

THE TALLY: If you're a fan of the warlock series this is a so-so deal. It'll interest fans of horror. Its not a really sucky flick, but it could've been a little more forthcoming in what the hell was going on. If you do rent it don't use a crappy VCR like I did....you might as well buy it.