I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Wow - never knew Geronimo had blue eyes...But Chuck Connors definitely had the face - cheek bones, general hatchet visage and kick-ass stance, to play a tough-guy like Geronimo.I just find the whole romantiziation (??) of the story hard to stomach. His side-kick Magnus' New York/Catskills one-liners seemed a bit out of place as well, but whatever.And Batman is in the show! How can you miss it?

***SPOILERS*** Far better the expected film about Apache Indian warrior Geronimo,Chuck Connors, who's fight against the white man spilled over the US Mexican border and caused havoc in both countries for over 30 years. With no more then a few hundred men Geronimo fought a drawn out gorilla war that cost the lives of thousand of both Mexican and US soldiers and settlers as well as hundreds of his own men. It's when Geronimo finally agreed to surrender to the US Government in Arizona Territory in 1883 that the film begins. And it's then that Geronimo learns what a bunch of back stabbing and crooked shysters he was actually dealing with.With the Arizona Territorial US Government headed by the aptly named General George A Crook, Larry Dobkin, breaking a promise with Geronimo to keep his people on the land that they were given by the Great White Father in Washington D.C. Crook and his partner in crime the half baked and phony Christian missionary Jeremah Burn, John Anderson, ended up selling the Indian land away, all 50,000 acres, to a sleazy land developer Kincaide,Joe Higgins. That had the outraged and feeling suckered, in signing a peace treaty with the white man, Geronimo go on the warpath and take his band of Apache warriors along with him.The film has Geronimo conduct a number of hit and run guerrilla attacks on both US and Mexican troops much like the Viet Cong did in Vienam at the time the movie, in 1962, was being filmed. Highly successful the attacks cause concern in both Washington and Mexico City with the Apaches trying down as much as 10,000 US & Mexican troops in trying to defeat them. It's during that time,1883-1886,that Geronimo married pretty Indian squaw Teela played by Kamala Devi the soon to be Mrs. Chuck Connors and the only full blooded Indian, born in Bombay India in 1934, in the entire cast. It's Teela who's sick and tired of her hubby's obsession with waging war against the white man which almost caused her to suffer a miscarriage. Teela also wants her soon be be born son Geronimo Jr not to grow up in a world of bloodshed and violence that his pop Geronimo Sr is so accustomed to.It's also during that period in his life that Geronimo's best friend and second in command Mangus,Ross Martin,gets himself killed in action leaving both his wife and young son widowed and orphaned. Finally seeing the light after losing almost 90% of his man from hunger disease and starvation, as well as killed in combat, Geronimo signed a peace treaty with the white man or US Government and as the film ends he together with Teela Geronimo Jr and what was left of the Apache tribe that he was the leader of lived happily ever after.P.S In truth Geronimo didn't live happily ever after but was screwed again by the hated white man and not allowed to returned to his beloved and ancestral homeland in the Arizona Territory of the USA. Geronimo instead ended up making a meager living becoming a side show curiosity in Wild West Shows with people paying to photograph or be photographed with the once brave and fearless Apache warrior. Living out his last days at the US Army base at Fort Sill Oklahoma Geronimo passed away on in the dead of winter on February 17, 1909 at the age of 79 from pneumonia. His last words were reported to have been said to his nephew saying that the biggest mistake he ever made was surrendering and not fighting to the death against the white man.

I'm just about through the fourth season of "The Rifleman" on the Encore Western Channel, and I'm really starting to appreciate the work of Chuck Connors. So as I call up the TV cable listings yesterday, it's only about a minute to go before the movie "Geronimo" is set to play on Turner Classics. With no hesitation, I'm there.With a film like this you've got to be able to get past the license taken with historical accuracy; this one is about one third true and the rest is Hollywood. But for fans of Connors, you've got a decent amount of story to work with in a movie populated by a number of his regularly appearing guests on the TV series. There's the reliable John Anderson as Jeremiah Burns, and a second half appearance by Denver Pyle as Senator Conrad. You might also be surprised to see Adam West as a cavalry officer, and Ross Martin as an Apache friend of Geronimo named Magnus.I was surprised to see how authentic Connors looked as an Indian, probably even more so than Paul Newman as the title character in "Hombre". However I was taken aback at times where in size and appearance he resembled Arnold Schwarzenneger a bit. It's ironic actually that Connors plays the role of an Apache, when in Episode #1.37 of "The Rifleman" - 'The Raid' - Lucas McCain sets a personal high body count with seven Apaches killed in the story. He doesn't come nearly as close in this one against the white man, although one might argue they certainly had it coming.The biggest surprise though coming out of this picture was seeing actress Kamala Devi portraying the Apache school teacher who Geronimo takes for a wife. The idea must have intrigued Connors because some time after filming, Devi became Connors' second wife for real. Not surprising, she was absolutely gorgeous.Pay attention, and you'll catch a neat line that was a harbinger of things to come for Connors the actor. When he's on line at the San Carlos reservation to get his food rations for the first time, he's marked with a painted 'X' on his hand. In an eerily prophetic remark, Geronimo angrily tells the quartermaster - "I'm not an animal that has to be Branded"!

There's really nothing to distinguish GERONIMO from any standard Hollywood western about outlaws, except that this time it's a lone outlaw against the U.S. cavalry at a time when Indian treaties were being broken and the Indians wanted to fight over territorial rights. Nothing complex here, just a fictionalized account of Geronimo's love for an Indian woman who bears him a son before the fadeout and after the final battle.Blond and blue-eyed CHUCK CONNORS isn't anyone's idea of an Indian so it's hard to tell what the casting director was thinking, but he does a commendable job of looking like one, thanks to make-up and costumes, except for the blue eyes. He makes no attempt at any sort of native accent but his stoic manner and steely-eyed gaze does help the characterization. KAMALA DEVI is good as the Indian woman who bears his child and ADAM WEST has a pivotal role as a sympathetic officer.Nicely photographed but short on battle skirmishes, it makes passable entertainment but is hardly an outstanding western by any yardstick, dull in some stretches with a less than inspired script.