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Thunderheart [1992]


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Amazon.co.uk Review

Tough but moving, Thunderheart is an unusual story about an arrogant FBI agent (Val Kilmer) who participates in a federal investigation of a murder on an Oglala Sioux reservation. Kilmer's character is part Sioux himself, a detail that leaves him cold as he sets about pushing his way through the community to find facts on the case. In time, however, he begins to feel an ethnic tug and grows increasingly sympathetic to the locals and hostile toward his fellow G-men, much to the dismay of his agency mentor (Sam Shepard). The script is based on real events that occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 in South Dakota (involving an armed stand-off between Indian activists and the FBI, an event that prompted Thunderheart director Michael Apted to make a companion documentary, Incident at Oglala). The conclusion of Thunderheart feels like politically charged whimsy, but the real strength of the film is Kilmer's outstanding performance as a man in transformation. Apted's clear-eyed depiction of the Sioux's spiritual and cultural continuity with the past has none of the cloying romanticism of other films about Indians. Produced by Robert De Niro. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com --This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

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Synopsis

An FBI agent is sent to an Indian reservation to solve a murder.
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From the Back Cover

Val Kilmer (The Saint), Sam Shepherd and Graham Green star in this powerful murder mystery with all the style and suspense of Witness. Kilmer stars as Ray Levoi, a hotshot FBI agent who's thrust into a strange new world when he is sent to solve a muder on an Indian reservation. Hand picked because of his part Sioux ancesrty, Levoi is teamed up with a legendary older agent (Shephard) to capture a radical Indian protestor. But once on the reservation, Levoi encounters the irreverent local sheriff (Greene), and the tribe's religious leader (Chief Ted Thin Elk), who knows secrets about Levoi's own lost heritage. And so Levoi's awareness of the native culture grows, so does his belief that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man.

Whodunnit with native intrigue
Review date: 2006-02-18 Rating: 10 out of 10

Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), a promising East Cost FBI agent is assigned to a case. He assumes this is in the latter to promotion. Yet he is informed it is in an Indian reservation and that he is Indian and it is more diplomatic. The reality as in most of these stories is that there is a more nefarious purpose in mind.

Will Levoi discover the real purpose of his assignment?
Will Levoi ferret out Whodunnit?
Will Levoi finger out what was done?
How will he handle confronting remnants of his unknown past culture?

A Major catalyst and almost the narrator of the story is Graham Greene. Born in Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada and Graduate of The Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School. He gives a true native feeling to the film.

Formula story written by John Fusco has a Tony Hillerman feel. It has the advantage of not being Reforested. When Robert Redford gets a hold of a movie it looses its original purpose or feel and become some sort of political statement. This movie is just about someone finding himself, even if he did not know he was lost. If any thing it has a Joseph Campbell coming of age story.

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Excellent film with some very good performances.
Review date: 2000-11-12 Rating: 10 out of 10

I saw this film quite a few years ago now, and remember that it was a rough and violent but immensely entertaining film. I purchased the DVD (as it is that type of movie that you will watch again) from Amazon and re-lived the events at the reservation. I hated Sam Shepards character, which means that he played it well as the old-school agent, with the comparative new-comer (Kilmer) carrying out his orders with diligence and suspicion. For me though, the performance of the film was carried out by Graham Green II. His charisma and humour were evident throughout and greatly enhanced what could have been purely an investigative-drama. It was well shot, showed the squalor of the reservations, gave account of the irregular FBI interest in a murder case and the spiritual dream-world of the Sioux Nation. I hope that this review gives you enough incentive to view the film, you will not be disappointed. Other films I have enjoyed with a Native American/First Nation angle are Legends of the Fall, Last of the Mohicans, Dances with Wolves (Graham Greene again) and others - check out the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for more information.

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Actor(s):
Fred Dalton Thompson
Val Kilmer
Fred Ward
Graham Greene (II)
Sam Shepard

Creators:
Val Kilmer (Primary Contributor)
Sam Shepard (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Uca Catalogue
Manufacturer: Uca Catalogue
EAN: 5050582238365
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2004-03-08
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 114 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1992-04-03
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Original Language)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: German (Subtitled)
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Language: Danish (Subtitled)
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Language: Arabic (Subtitled)
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Language: Greek (Subtitled)
Language: German (Dubbed)
Language: Italian (Dubbed)
Language: Spanish (Dubbed)

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