“grossly detached even from the reality of the modern day West let alone the West of 1883” — I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw that. It wasn’t as bad as some Westerns where everybody looks, behaves, acts, and speaks like it’s 2022, but it was pretty bad.
The cinematography was good. So many things required major suspension of disbelief like the farmer in one of the opening scenes outrunning five bandits while single-handedly driving a fully loaded wagon and a team of four. Right.
The Fort Worth scenes were pretty good.
The river crossing scenes were very poor.
But, I REALLY like the Indian love-interest who spoke excellent white man English with no accent and how she became perfectly fluent in his language in two weeks.
The romance was pure BS and the language thing caught my attention too. We’re a couple hours away from the Wind River rez and when we’ve been down there for the elk hunting none of the NA speak their own language. “Too hard.” they all say.
And they all had a lifetime to learn...not a couple weeks.