Review of Dances with Wolves (1990) by Phil H — 09 Oct 2011

Probably the best western made, only 'Mohicans' comes close to this and only 'Apocalypto' recently challenges it. This is a heart warming, emotional, tense and brutal look at life within an Indian tribe and how they try to exsist against the American military with the help of turned soldier Costner. The look and feel of the whole film is absolutely perfect, faultless, the musical score is one of the best and most moving in a film that I can remember whilst the acting is nothing short of perfect from virtually everyone involved including Costner.

Nothing has really beaten this film in terms of accuracy and honesty, its amazing what they achieved, even the animals are sublime. Most of the film is in native tongue ('Apocalypto' beats this in the fact its all in native tongue which was darn impressive) and the locations used are actually the correct real historic locations, not many sets used. Its a perfect film, romance, action, courage, revenge, tears, its very much an emotional roller coaster, but well worth it, you must see this before you die, its an actual history lesson.