This is one of those films which you remember years later. I think the acting is excellent, and the backdrop of the massacre at Wounded Knee was just haunting. It's an overlooked movie I always tell friends about. The plot may seem standard, but I thought that it had enough twists to be interesting. The film opened my eyes to the sad chapter of history that was the colonizing of the West. As an American, I've been enamored of Native American history and culture since watching this film. I've heard that Val Kilmer has some Native blood in him, not sure which tribe. For some reason, his acting was really convincing, as the 'mixed' blood struggling with his own ambivalence and personal issues with his father.
Review of Thunderheart
