Too much of everything

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.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I expected a lot of this mini-series, because Steven Spielberg was the executive producer. And you notice that when you watch this series. The direction is very good! This series must have cost a lot of money, because it's excellently filmed. Very interesting is, that the series shows the situation in a different way. Not like in a traditional western, where the Americans are the hero's and the Indians are the stupid barbarians. Nicely done! Again a very good product by Steven Spielberg! But sometimes the English that is spoken, is difficult to understand, certainly when there are no subtitles. But nevertheless, very good mini-series!

If I could give this more than 10, I would, a lot more! It was without a doubt the most exciting, thought-provoking, heartening, historically correct and gripping TV series I have ever had the pleasure of watching. It was lovely to see an unbiased account of what life was like for two sides of the fight, and it was wonderful to really warm to and become fond of the various characters (and trust me, there are plenty). Some would automatically think the second they heard it was produced by Steven Spielberg that it would be all 'airy-fairy' and patriotic, but that sense is not put across at all. The messages are of course heart warming at times and sorrowful at others, but surely that just goes with life?! Furthermore, the visual cinematography and scenes were absolutely phenomenal, and each episode seemed to grip me as intensely as the previous ones had done so. Each second, I felt completely entwined in the action and warming stories being portrayed. It had me crying a lot, but this is the only thing I can find is bad (and its not always a bad thing). It was incredible, and I am going to scream it from the roof tops until it gets the recognition it deserves! I can't help feeling that it was almost wasted on television, but then again we were due a genius new TV series at some point. I loved it! Everyone watch it, buy it, preach it!! It will have you talking about it for years.

I am a South African. I am white. I have been expected to apologize to the blacks in my country for the so called autrocities that the white people performed against the blacks over the ages.Having just viewed this movie and having studied up on the history of various Native American Tribes, this movie, especially episode 6 truly made me sick to my stomach.I want to know if the Americans still bear the guilt they should for the barbaric way the massacred the native population of the country they took from them.If we had followed the same route in Africa, we would not be in the racial problems that we have today. We would have also been a white majority but we did not. We fed them, educated them, gave them the best living standards in Africa but we are still being expected to apologize. As for me, I wont apologize but if history is correct, the Americans of today owe restitution to the Native Americans they treated like animals.Has any such apologies or restitution ever been done in the USA ? I would really like to know.

Although the US has not a recorded history of 2000 years,there weren't less chaos and misery as it grew up.The west before exploration was almost an alien land of this planet for white settlers.Rifles cables railway and diseases changed all of these,and destroyed the world where simple innocent Indians lived.We who survive a regular society today hardly suppose things occurred 150 years ago.Everybody could pick up golds on the riverbed,raid fortune no matter whom it belonged to,kill "savages" with decrees from the "Washington Father".That was how the western part of the country began,with the efforts by Chinese,Indians,Irish,Germen,Italians and so on,beyond races,religions,languages,sabotaging old peoples,merging a new people,far from freedom and democracy.(Somehow Chinese do contribute to the US,which was scarcely mentioned)Spielburg gave us a mini picture of the Wheelers as well as America,which shock me and let me know the other side of America.We can't blame ancestors for what they had done in the old days but we can surely understand what we can do today on the earth.