Review of Meek's Cutoff (2011) by Diamondback R — 02 Dec 2018
As a History buff who has studied the Meek's Cutoff, this Movie is only 2% close to being accurate. It should have been called something else.
The Meek Wagon Trains had thousands of head of Cattle, Oxen and horses. There were over a thousand people in the Wagon Train.
They stayed at the Alkali lake for a period of time, drinking the bad water, and had numerous people die. The Indian, actually spoke broken english.
The only factual parts I saw were the hardships, the finding of the Indian, the trading of the Blanket.
The Indian actually led them to Water.
I find it difficult to watch a film portraying something historical, and completely destroying History in the process. A simple Wikipedia search will show how inaccurate this Movie is.
Even a low budget Film could show the accurate history. A horrible excuse of a movie to portray this as Meek's Cutoff.
It simply should have been titled a tale of American Pioneers or something else, and I wouldn't have such a problem with this Film.
This review of Meek's Cutoff (2011) was written by Diamondback R on 02 Dec 2018.
Meek's Cutoff has generally received positive reviews.
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