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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This dramatization states to shown how bad were those years when the US Army had to kill almost a whole native people whom were the real landowners and were slaughtered and aftermatch deported to some dry reservation,a shame that never the american people will forget....of course a new generation of clean brains shall fix it at least recognition and get back the black hills which the high court given a final descision,and put 6 millions dollars to pay the lands,but no one take the money....they wants their lands back and another sacred places to them ,in another point about Buffalo soldiers who deserves more respect from the american people...fine piece of art to shown such atrocities!!Resume:First watch: 1998 / How many: 3 / Source: Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 7

For TV standards this was a good, well made film.Basically, the makers of this motion picture lost an excellent opportunity to make a great film, which would not have required too much more, The camera was very good, the sound also (allbeit the soundtrack is a little overly melodramatic). The acting was also very good, especially for television standards, and overall the film gives a very realistic impression. Unfortunately it could have been much better. Just the ending alone destroys most of the good impressions made during the movie. Why on earth did they want to depart from the historical facts in order to engage in creating a situation so absurd that not even a 5 year old kid would believe it. All for the sake of political correctness? But this is ridiculous! How stupid do they think the viewers are? If you only do as much as look up the Indian wars in Wikipedia, you will find that "Encounters with the Indians usually resulted in skirmishes; however the 10th engaged in major confrontations at Tinaja de las Palmas (a water hole south of Sierra Blanca) and at Rattlesnake Springs (north of Van Horn). These two engagements halted Victorio and forced him to retreat to Mexico. Although Victorio and his band were not captured, the campaign conducted by the 10th successfully prevented them from reaching New Mexico", not that they sat down with the Indians, had coffee, talked about it and then let them go! It just doesn't make sense. Why destroy a perfectly good movie with nonsense like this?In other, the character development is far too simple, too one-sided for this to be an "important" movie. All in all, good made for TV fare, but unfortunately nothing more.

Why are the revisionists in Hollywood content to produce worthless drivel that no one cares about? Fiction that professes to produce some sort of truth is nauseating to watch. Boring work like this is only worthy of a gullible TV audience, victims of TV and Hollywood propaganda that does nothing to disseminate the truth. Danny Glover should be ashamed of himself and his performance, to be taken in by such trite, politically correct dialogue. Poorly acted, because there is no script or story or truth, this movie is, simply put, just a complete waste of time. This movie is not worth reviewing.I think historical research by people who can glean truth out of historical records would have benefited this project immensely. Why can't Hollywood producers do that anymore?

From the title, I expected a good overview of the Buffalo Soldiers. Instead, we get a drawn out, soap-opera-ish tale of hunting down a single Indian villain. Since I missed the first minute or two of opening credits, this script may have been pure fiction for all I know. As one complaint, there is no mention of John Pershing's (of World War I fame) association with these troops.As could be expected, the wrongs and conflicts from racism are well set forth. Nonetheless, the Buffalo Soldiers, many ex-slaves, proudly risk their lives and stay in the cavalry by choice.The acting is commendable, particularly that of Danny Glover as the central character. Some '90s idioms (the 1990s, that is) find their way into the dialog.Given the title and the general ignorance (myself included) about the Buffalo Soldiers, this tv movie was very disappointing. Surely, these men did a lot more on the frontier than they are credited with here.