Thoroughly impressed. I had this on the watchlist for a while. Well shot, some cool action, and a great ending. Surprisingly also has some humour mixed in as well. Loved the scene where Val kilmer was explaining the fact he had a vision, and the reservation cop was jealous because he'd never had one. Solid 7 outta 10 for me.
shareBeen a fan of this movie since I saw it in a theater when it was released in '92. Val Kilmer, Graham Greene (of Dancing With Wolves fame) and Sam Shepard nail their roles (I've liked Sam Shepard in every role he's ever done). The story, the acting, the music all came together under Michael Apted's directing well enough for me that I've watched it at least a half dozen times over the years since.
I'm glad to see people still discovering it. I'm only 2.6% Cherokee, but I connected with this film.
"Thunderheart", by the way, shares DNA with and uses elements from Apted's documentary "Incident at Oglala" released the same year and produced and narrated by Robert Redford. Some of the events in this documentary, which covers what Redford considered the unfair trial of Leonard Peltier, were witnessed firsthand by screenwriter John Fusco years earlier while he was living on the reservation researching for the film that eventually became "Thunderheart". John Trudell, who plays Jimmy Looks Twice in the movie, was involved in the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973, and was the chairman of AIM when the events portrayed in "Incident at Oglala" took place.
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