Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

ShangLuda Admirable film.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

pimy95 Excellent western from 1980. Great acting, and dialogue. Cinematography to anyone who has been out in the American west, is a visual treat from beginning to end. Not a gritty, "docudrama", as some here would like, but a heart tugging, spiritual journey and love story that ends similarly to another 1980 fantasy, "Somewhere in Time".Yes, this film is a throwback to another, kinder time in films when children as well as adults could watch something that brings tears to everyone's eyes at the end...score and all.I pay a large amount of money for DIRECTV's premium package. The vast majority of it, is directed at people like the guy, and his girlfriend whom hated this film, in these comments..to me, garbage. I consider this a gift to be have been able to watch on Starz Encore Western. A hidden gem, amid allot of trash.

bkoganbing I'm sure that there is a story behind the casting of Trevor Howard as the old Cheyenne Indian who has led quite a life in Windwalker. We already know that Chief Dan George was originally supposed to be cast in the title role and that would have made rational sense certainly. Still Howard brings a certain noble dignity to the part of the old Cheyenne warrior though film fans on both sides of the pond are used to seeing him as ardent lover in his youth and barracks roisterer in his middle age in British films.As a young man Howard saw his wife killed and one of his two twin sons kidnapped by the Cheyenne hereditary enemy the Crow. Later on in old age Howard is as custom has, put while not quite dead on the funeral pyre. When he doesn't die being out there in the cold it occurs to him that their might be some higher purpose for him being kept alive. He rolls off that pyre and goes back to his family. And the rest of Windwalker is Howard learning why the Great Spirit has kept him alive.Windwalker is one of those sleeper films that people enjoy discovering. It is a film about Indian culture out in the plains and Rocky Mountains before the white man arrived. It is caringly and lavishly photographed in some rugged terrain the more realistic to make this film. It was what Dances With Wolves came to be later, the ultimate film about Indian life and lore. Nick Ramus and James Remar are wonderful as the two sons.This film came and went very quickly. Back in the day in 1980 when it first came out. I met a young man in one of our fabulous gay bars back then named Tommy Barker who had lived on a reservation though he was not an American Indian. He was quite steeped in the culture and we went to see Windwalker. It was great to see it with someone who really appreciated the film and its authenticity. I lost track of Tommy shortly after that. He was a great person and I certainly hope that he's not in the past tense for good. This review is dedicated to him.The phrase that Charles Dickens used in describing Dr. Manette in A Tale Of Two Cities "Recalled to Life" is how I think of Windwalker. I think you'll be blown away when you see it.

BigLaxFan94 I remember seeing this one when it first came out in 1980. I have to say that it was way too slow, there was hardly any action and life for it to be considered a good film. As a matter of fact, I don't know how this one even made it to the big screen! The film's portrayal of the Crow and Cheyenne Nations were respectable enough. But I'm afraid that's the only highlight of it. Most people who saw this one may think it was like any other typical Hollywoodish film where Indians are seen as the bad guys ... (today is a different matter altogether since Native people are seen much differently than they were back then.) But.... anyways...... I love ANY film dealing with Native people, but not the ones that depict them with the negative stereotypes! Fortunately I never saw a lot of those bad stereotypes. I just thought the story probably wasn't very well planned. Other than that, it was OK but not the kind that would earn any Oscars or anything along those lines.That's why I gave this one a 6.

Kaustubh Moghe Great movie. Saw it a long time ago. It is a movie that is worth keeping in your collection.The best part of the movie is not its story but the way the characters are handled. But if you are in the mood to have fun when you are watching the movie, this is not for you. Watch it alone and you enjoy it more. If you are watching it with people who are more interested in the popcorn than the movie, you would never understand the movie.There are some movies that are meant to be watched and some to be seen. This is a movie that needs be seen and felt....heavy huh? :-)Happy watching