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Val Kilmer stars as a part-Sioux FBI agent who rediscovers his lost heritage in this spellbinding murder mystery. Review: Val Kilmer at his best - This is a really great film not just a Val Kilmer fan film but just a plain old good film. The plot is great it’s about a FBI agent with a Native American background ends up dealing with a case on a reservation where he has to confront himself his past his lineage and the job for the FBI that he’s gotta do. Well done because it’s a great watch and it’s not trying to sell you a point of view instead of selling you a great story. Review: Highly recommended historical film - This is a remarkable film, based on true events. For anyone who didn't already know, there are lessons here about the massacre at Wounded Knee in Sioux territory in 1890, and part of the work was filed on the Sioux reservation where this occurred, at the U.S. national historical landmark. Other parts were filmed on the Pine Ridge Sioux reservation and in the Badlands. The acting and direction are superb, the John Fusco screenplay is first rate. He based it "loosely" on a 1974 incident at Wounded Knee. American Indian Movement at that time took over the town by that name in South Dakota to protest federal Native American policies. Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) plays a young FBI agent with Sioux blood (but zero knowledge of his family's Sioux _ sent by a Washington D.C. bureaucrat to investigate and quickly close a homicide on the reservation. He's in awe of veteran FBI agent Agent Frank "Cooch" Coutelle (Sam Shepard), Spoiler alert: Coutelle turns out to be a very bad guy, definitely not even a shadow of a hero. Meanwhile, Levoi learns about his heritage from tribal police officer Walter Crow Horse (Graham Greene) and tribal elder Grandpa Sam Reaches (Ted Thin Elk), and Maggie Eagle Bear (Sheila Tousey). Also in 1992, Apted had previously directed a documentary surrounding a Native American activist episode involving the murder of FBI agents titled Incident at Oglala. The documentary depicts the indictment of activist Leonard Peltier during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The plot also weaves in a few other murders of Native Americans that are also based on real life 1970s incidents. I found the movie thoroughly authentic and engrossing, not to mention heart wrenching. Highly recommended.


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K**L
Val Kilmer at his best
This is a really great film not just a Val Kilmer fan film but just a plain old good film. The plot is great it’s about a FBI agent with a Native American background ends up dealing with a case on a reservation where he has to confront himself his past his lineage and the job for the FBI that he’s gotta do. Well done because it’s a great watch and it’s not trying to sell you a point of view instead of selling you a great story.
A**N
Highly recommended historical film
This is a remarkable film, based on true events. For anyone who didn't already know, there are lessons here about the massacre at Wounded Knee in Sioux territory in 1890, and part of the work was filed on the Sioux reservation where this occurred, at the U.S. national historical landmark. Other parts were filmed on the Pine Ridge Sioux reservation and in the Badlands. The acting and direction are superb, the John Fusco screenplay is first rate. He based it "loosely" on a 1974 incident at Wounded Knee. American Indian Movement at that time took over the town by that name in South Dakota to protest federal Native American policies. Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) plays a young FBI agent with Sioux blood (but zero knowledge of his family's Sioux _ sent by a Washington D.C. bureaucrat to investigate and quickly close a homicide on the reservation. He's in awe of veteran FBI agent Agent Frank "Cooch" Coutelle (Sam Shepard), Spoiler alert: Coutelle turns out to be a very bad guy, definitely not even a shadow of a hero. Meanwhile, Levoi learns about his heritage from tribal police officer Walter Crow Horse (Graham Greene) and tribal elder Grandpa Sam Reaches (Ted Thin Elk), and Maggie Eagle Bear (Sheila Tousey). Also in 1992, Apted had previously directed a documentary surrounding a Native American activist episode involving the murder of FBI agents titled Incident at Oglala. The documentary depicts the indictment of activist Leonard Peltier during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The plot also weaves in a few other murders of Native Americans that are also based on real life 1970s incidents. I found the movie thoroughly authentic and engrossing, not to mention heart wrenching. Highly recommended.
C**N
Excellent Movie
Val Kilmer does an excellent job of portraying his character. Exciting movie!!
C**K
Good movie
Good movie
A**L
A surprisingly deep action flick, and one man's rejected past...
Thunderheart is a terrific movie, well worth the purchase price of a single DVD. This film's a longtime favorite of mine -- one of those movies I watched when I was bored, and then was blown away by how deep, interesting, and resonant it was. I've seen the movie easily four or five times since and always find something new to notice. I love a lot of different things about it -- I love Ray's journey in this movie (and Val Kilmer is just wonderful in this role), the way his discoveries lessen his self-loathing -- and simultaneously humanize him and lessen his superiority toward others (particularly others of the Sioux tribe that he encounters). He begins as a cocky, unlikeable, jerk -- and then we see the scared little kid beneath the surface. The film's story is a great murder mystery -- but that's really just to give us a way into the action. It's also a wonderfully understated way of showing that what Ray hated wasn't what was in others, but what was within himself. The man in the beginning of this movie is about an inch deep -- he has rejected everything about himself, his family, his rich family history as the son of a halfblood Sioux. By the end of the movie, he's irrevocably changed -- a much more likeable and accessible person who no longer does things by the book, but by the heart. Kilmer's performance is just so subtle -- you see it all in his face. There's a lot of humor, too, just when you least expect it. I also love the aura of the supernatural/spiritual that fills this movie, yet (to me) it's never hokey, but fresh, cool and really respectful. The spiritual is a big part of native American culture, and it's treated that way here, but without smarm or too much obviousness. I love Ray's unexpected visions, those ghostly moments in which animals truly seem to see things that are hidden. I also love every single scene Ray has with both Graham Green's character (and Graham Green just rocks -- he's amazing), as well as all his scenes with a brave local native American schoolteacher. I like that there's a hint of romance in the plot, as well, but that it's subtext, and remains in the background (no big romantic subplot). The entire final quarter of the film is just really moving to me. So many shots in this movie say everything without a word spoken. Even the very last shot of the film speaks volumes about what a different man Ray is now. A great movie, that has a lot to say.
B**C
Very good movie
A must see movie, very good movie and well made
J**6
Excellent Move about the American Indian Movement and the lies of the Government!
I am former law enforcement and have been doing research on Native American Indians and the culture. This movie was accurate and closely paralleled an actual homicide case that involved the homicides of 2 FBI agents and later the homicide of Anna Mae Quash who was a Mi'kmaq activist from Nova Scotia, Canada, who became a member of the American Indian Movement, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, United States during the mid-1970s. This movie was very well done and gave examples of how the Indian cuture really is and Graham Green played a very important part in educating us. Greene is one of my favorite Native American Indian actors. He is from the Six Nations Reservation tribe in Canada. I have a special interest in this movie also because I think Val Kilmer is an excellent actor and I particularly love Sheila Tousey as an activist and highly educated Teacher who confronts the "rookie" Indian FBI agent Thunder Heart.In my opinion Sheila was actually playing the part of AIM Activist Anna Mae Quash who was killed as an FBI informant according to the actual case and movie script. Anna Mae revealed the actual killer of the FBI agents and Indians who was a Parolee. The names of the Pine Ridge shoot out victims were: Ronald A. Williams and Jack R. Coler.(According to what I know, 2 fingers were severed to send the FBI in Wash.D.C. so they could confirm they were real.) It is ironic that in the case of Anna Mae Quash, the FBI had her hands severed to verify her identity, when she was already identified. The hands were sewn back on for the Burial. (Referred to as "Making The Journey") What's even more interesting is that actual AIM members were in the movie as cameos and someone I know of is Dennis Banks. When I was in the U.S. Secret Service in 1974-1977 I had occasion to run into some AIM members in Washington, D,.C. who were occupying the Department Of Interior Building and all the "Feds" were looking for Dennis Banks. It appeared some AIM members were hiding out in some local Churches.Later Banks had a meeting with Department Officials. (Note: Banks and others like Leonard Peltier were accused of killing 2 FBI agents in Pine Ridge South Dakota.[...] ) Peltier made incriminating comments about the FBI agents homicide and is in federal prison today. Over 10 years later, I was working in U.S. Customs and ran into an actor named Dennis Banks who was crossing the Border at San Ysidro. I'm pretty sure it was Dennis Banks cause I ran his name to see if he was still wanted and he came up "negative". To this day the U.S. Government has LIED and Mistreated the Native American Indians and this movie is a great example of even how the FBI was corrupted and manipulated by even one senior agent who was going to benefit thru the deaths of innocent Americans who were Indians.(See also Clear Cut (1991) With Graham Greene. ENJOY !!!
C**O
History rewritten and lost...
This is one of Val Kilmer and Graham Greene's best movie's. The landscape is beautiful. The sadness is how the Native Americans were treated and are treated even today by our own government. This one of my favorite movies. It will open your eyes.. 😪
"**"
Une édition Blu-ray espagnole de 2024, avec version française
Un bon film policier datant de 1992, avec des scènes d'action, du suspense et des surprises au final. L'histoire inspirée d'un fait réel contemporain se déroule entièrement dans une réserve amérindienne désolée du Dakota du Sud. Avec au menu d'excellents interprètes : Val Kilmer (Ray Levoi du FBI), Sam Shepard ( Franck Coutelle, policier du FBI et Graham Greene, policier Sioux de la réserve. Réalisé par l'Anglais Michael APTED, celui-ci parvient à nous tenir en haleine et à nous faire découvrir à travers le meurtre d'un Sioux, l'univers désastreux qui touche encore d'aujourd'hui la plupart des Natives, dans une Amérique inhumaine et très inégalitaire.
J**S
You get what you pay for.
Good price for great product. Classic, almost art house movie. Packaging and shipping service was good. Well described.
T**Y
Wurzelbehandlung
[Vorsicht, leichte Spoiler nicht ausgeschlossen!] „They're a proud people. But they're also a conquered people. That means their future is dictated by the nation that conquered them. Rightly or wrongly, that's the way it works, down through history.” Mit diesen Worten, deren Mischungsgrad zwischen Zynismus und Heuchelei man zunächst nur erahnen, nicht aber genauer bestimmen kann, läßt sich FBI-Mann Frank Coutelle (Sam Shepard) gegenüber seinem neuen Kollegen Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) über die Einwohner des Bear-Creek-Reservats in Süddakota aus. Levoi, ein junger und erfolgreicher Ermittler, ist selbst zur Hälfte Sioux, und diesem Umstand hat er es zu verdanken, daß Washington ihn auf den neuen Fall in den Badlands angesetzt hat, denn man glaubt, die Indianer wären eher bereit, mit einem der “Ihren“ zu reden, wenn sie sich schon der Notwendigkeit ausgesetzt sehen, mit dem Staat zusammenzuarbeiten. Und Zusammenarbeit ist notwendig, denn es gibt eine Reihe von Morden und Gewalttaten im Reservat, augenscheinlich begangen von einer Gruppe traditionsbewußter Indianer, die es ablehnen, sich der Kultur der Weißen anzupassen. Ganz oben auf der Fahndungsliste steht Jimmy Looks Twice (John Trudell), ein Aktivist, dem man äußerste Gewaltbereitschaft nachsagt, doch auch die Lehrerin Maggie Eagle Bear (Sheila Tousey), die mit den Aktivisten sympathisiert, ist ins Fadenkreuz der Ermittlungen geraten. Bei seiner Ankunft im Reservat muß Levoi freilich erkennen, daß niemand wirklich scharf darauf ist, mit dem „Washington Redskin“ zu sprechen. Zu allem Überfluß werden die Indianer auch von einer Gruppe „regierungstreuer“ Indianer um den Sioux Jack Milton (Fred Ward) terrorisiert, die es sich auf die Fahnen geschrieben haben, auf ihre Weise mit den Traditionalisten abzurechnen. Dabei können sie auch auf die Unterstützung durch Frank Coutelle rechnen – ganz gleich, wie brachial ihre Methoden sind. Was für Levoi anfangs wie ein ganz normaler Mordfall aussieht, entpuppt sich indes zusehends als eine politische Intrige, in der es um große Geschäfte geht und zu deren Verschleierung Jimmy Looks Twice als Bauernopfer hinhalten soll. Der junge FBI-Mann aus Washington muß sich bald nicht nur fragen, wem er überhaupt noch trauen kann, sondern er sieht sich auch zusehends mit seiner eigenen Vergangenheit konfrontiert und durch den Reservatspolizisten Walter Crow Horse (Graham Greene) und den alten Medizinmann Sam Reaches (Chief Ted Thin Elk) auf eine Reise zu seinen indianischen Wurzeln geschickt. Mit „Thunderheart“ aus dem Jahre 1992 hat der britische Regisseur Michael Apted einen bemerkenswerten Film, vielleicht sogar seinen besten, gedreht – eine Mischung aus Whodunnit, Polit-Thriller und „Bildungsroman“. Schon die Anfangsbilder des Filmes – im Lichte einer aufgehenden Sonne tanzende schattenhafte Indianer – rufen einen scheinbaren Widerspruch hervor, denn das Nebulöse, eher der Vergangenheit Zugehörige der Schattengestalten will zunächst nicht recht zu der aufgehenden Sonne passen. Im nächsten Moment sehen wir einen einzelnen Indianer, der brutal von hinten erschossen wird, und mit einem Male hat uns die Kamera in die Großstadt Washington entführt, in der wir Ray Levoi sehen, wie er im Auto sitzend die Stadt durcheilt, wobei er mindestens alle paar Sekunden den Radiosender wechselt. Dieser Ray Levoi wirkt zunächst uneingeschränkt wie ein Kind der schnellebigen und oberflächlichen Moderne, wie der typische angepaßte und ehrgeizige FBI-Agent. Es ist ihm sichtbar unangenehm, von seinem Vorgesetzten auf seine indianischen Wurzeln angesprochen zu werden, und als sein Sioux-Vater erwähnt wird, behauptet er zunächst, dieser sei gestorben, als er ein Säugling war, woraufhin ihn sein Chef korrigiert – „… als Sie sieben waren!“ Auch gegenüber dem unverhohlen rassistischen Coutelle ist er bestrebt, von vornherein jeden Gedanken daran ad absurdum zu führen, er sympathisiere etwa mit den Indianern. „Ich gehöre bestimmt nicht zu denen“, stößt er verächtlich hervor, als er und Coutelle eine erste Fahrt durch das elende Reservat unternehmen und sein neuer Partner darüber sinniert, daß diesen Menschen einmal ganz Amerika gehört habe, daß man sich bei ihnen allerdings nunmehr wie in der Dritten Welt vorkomme. Aus dem gleichen Bestreben heraus, seine eigene Kultur zu verleugnen, geht er schließlich Crow Horse, den er zunächst für einen der gewalttätigen Aktivisten hält, so hart an, daß sogar Coutelle ihn zurückhalten muß. Man sieht, daß Levoi sich als hundertprozentigen Amerikaner beweisen will – und ahnt, daß der Grund für dieses Bedürfnis ein äußerst schmerzhafter sein muß. Nach und nach allerdings, durch seine Zuneigung zu der Lehrerin Maggie, die aufkeimende, rauhbeinige Freundschaft zu Crow Horse und die von dem alten Medizinmann ausgehende Faszination, beginnt Levoi – getreu der Bedeutung seines französischen Namens – seine Wurzeln und sein Verhältnis zu seinem Vater in einem anderen Licht zu sehen – und seine bisherigen Loyalitäten in Frage zu stellen. Val Kilmer spielt diese komplexe Rolle ausgesprochen glaubwürdig, weil er sich großer Gefühlsausbrüche enthält und man auf diese Weise den Wandel, der sich in seinem Inneren abspielt, subtil erahnen muß. Der Film ist dabei so inszeniert, daß einerseits der Entwicklung des Protagonisten genügend Raum zugestanden wird, andererseits aber auch die Krimihandlung sowie die unterschiedlichen Nebenfiguren nicht in den Hintergrund geraten. Insgesamt ist Michael Apted hier ein sehr sehenswerter, aber auch unterhaltsamer Film gelungen – man mag zu den sparsam eingestreuten Mystery-Elementen stehen, wie man will –, der den Zuschauer am Ende nachdenklich hinterläßt und ein unsentimentales, moralinfreies Plädoyer für einen fairen Umgang mit den indianischen Ureinwohnern ausspricht.
M**R
Racial unrest in The Badlands
I saw this film a while ago on TV, and really enjoyed it. Val Kilmer is excellent as the FBI Indian Agent who is sent to The Badlands of Dakota when racial unrest and murder has broken out on the local reservation. Uncomfortable with his Indian background, he sees that Indians have an appalling existance on 'The Res', and comes to understand their plight. An old and wise Medicine Man recognises Kilmer as a reincarnation of 'Thunderheart', a Brave who was killed in a massacxre by the US army a century ago. Kilmer has visions of Ghost Dancers, and experiences running with the Braves at the massacre.Graham Greene is well cast as the local Indian Deputy, who is supposed to keep peace on 'The Res', and Sam Shephard is excellent as Kilmers' boss. What is behind the racial tension and the murders, I will leave to you to find out for yourselves, but you will find this movie highly entertaining, and rather humbling in places, as the movie asks you to understand the past with the present.
J**L
ThunderHeart (Corazón Tureno) - DVD Reino Unido
Confirmo que el idioma Español que aparece en la contraportada es Castellano. Tanto el menú como el idioma está en un perfecto Castellano (el audio de siempre). Imagen, regular (tampoco puedes esperar mucho de una edición simple en DVD).
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