Hostiles

2017 Directed by Scott Cooper

No peace without sacrifice

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

Christian Bale Rosamund Pike Wes Studi Jesse Plemons Adam Beach Rory Cochrane Peter Mullan Scott Wilson Paul Anderson Timothée Chalamet Ben Foster Jonathan Majors John Benjamin Hickey Q'orianka Kilcher Tanaya Beatty Bill Camp Scott Shepherd Ryan Bingham Robyn Malcolm Ava Cooper Stella Cooper David Midthunder Gray Wolf Herrera Stafford Douglas Stephen Lang Xavier Horsechief Austin Rising Scott G. Anderson Boots Southerland Show All…

Alternative Titles

하스타일, Недруги, Hostis

western history drama

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Review by Sean Baker 24

And why isn't Masanobu Takayanagi in awards season discussion for best cinematography? Every shot is gorgeous. I got to see on a large screen in the theater... I recommend you do the same. Shot on 35mm.
Arclight Hollywood.
Review by josh lewis ★ 11

scott cooper is the michael bay of Serious American Dramas, his stories essentially as complex as bay's boots-on-the-ground vs. liberal pussies but done in the only style he knows how: the laborious macho art weepy. this time he does the Good Colonialist story, where the white man's burden and guilt has a chance to act out extreme violence, not that it matters because the only thing cooper knows how to do is get otherwise good performers to mumble about rote emotions and Important Issues and move slowly—bale, at least, is suited to the grumbly macho cry and comes out looking fine but rosamund pike is next level awful in this. nearly every scene in this is like the third act…
Review by truman ★★★★ 6

2017: the year of timothèe
Review by ScreeningNotes ★ 52

There's something fundamentally misguided about these types of stories. The implication of a tale where a racist is reformed by spending time with someone he hates is that the reason racists still exist in the world today is that they simply haven't had the right life experiences, rather than that there are systemic conditions that manufacture and preserve racist sentiments.
We're supposed to believe that Captain Joseph J. Blocker (Christian Bale) simply hates Native Americans because he hasn't been forced to transport one across the country yet, not because the United States spreads anti-aboriginal hatred to justify its existence as a nation on another culture's land. No. That's just not how it works. The reason people are racist is institutional,…
Review by pebbles ★★★ 2

landscape porn where christian bale just takes a giant bite out of a whole lemon
Review by Steve Lovecraft ★★★★

Cormac McCarthy’s western epic Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is an obtuse and nearly insurmountable story to commit to screen, and I have my doubts that if it ever is produced that it will properly encapsulate the themes and poetic depth of that novel. But I can appreciate when a movie scratches the surface, and Hostiles is definitely one of those films. In it, Christian Bale is a U.S. Cavalry officer tasked with escorting a Cheyenne war chief back to his tribal home in Montana before the chief succumbs to cancer. To make things worse, the two of them had been at Wounded Knee, and there is a deep-seated hatred stemming from decades of violence that…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 4

“Hostiles,” a sturdy and characteristically brutal new Western from “Black Mass” director Scott Cooper, begins with somebody shooting a baby — that’s not a spoiler, just a warning. The year is 1892, and a settler named Rosalee Quaid (Rosamund Pike) is teaching her young daughters about the magical power of adverbs. Suddenly, their New Mexico homestead is raided by a band of Comanche renegades. They murder her husband, they shoot her two girls, and they fire a bullet directly into her infant son; Rosalee carries the lifeless bundle in her arms for days, because it’s that kind of movie — the only kind that Cooper knows how to make.
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Review by iana ★★★ 2

“I was just doing my job,” Captain Joseph says, to excuse his heinous treatment of Native Americans. Hostiles teases a complex study of the relationship between White and Native Americans but is more concerned with looking pretty than giving any substantial worthwhile message. Looking at the credits, I was surprised that a crew filled with talents like Tom Cross and Max Richter could create something so mediocre.
Review by matt lynch ★★½ 3

Mostly on autopilot. Like I was thinking it was weird that Ben Foster wasn't in this and then yep, Ben Foster shows up. Anyway there are lots of guys who shouldn't be taking a pass at THE SEARCHERS and Scott Cooper is definitely one of them.
Review by Logan Kenny ★ 9

cosmic brain level racism
Review by Jak-Luke Sharp ★★★★★ 7

Entertainment Film Distribution. Apple TV
2.35:1
Color
35mm
15
“I've killed everything that's walked or crawled. If you do it enough, you get used to it”
The world is engulfed in self-righteous superiority and bloodshed in Scott Cooper’s bleak and stunning depiction of the true barbaric ancestors of America. Hostiles begins with a frantic pace of violence, a feat that it never gives up, dragging its audience through the thick bloodshed that fills the entire brim of the screen. It’s suffocating and toxic - just the way it needs to be shown and seen. Many have seemingly missed the crux of Cooper’s film. It does not give a podium to racism, or bigotry, or white-nationalism for that matter. It showcases the atrocity…
Review by David Sims ★★ 5

Gloppy revisionist western that's half as smart as it thinks it is, and twice as grim as it needs to be. Strong ending that's just ridiculously unearned. Scott Cooper!!! *shakes fist at sky*

Recent reviews

Review by krejus ★★★

This film had some truly amazing action scenes that throw you deep into the moment. The cinematography is incredible and a strong performance from Bale and the rest of the cast.
I found the story hard to follow at times because a lot of it unfolded during moments of static conversation. I don’t like this in cinema on a normal day, but it was made even worse in this film because it’s so hard to understand what they are saying. I don’t understand why actors and directors opt for this. It is a cardinal sin in my books. The audience must understand what is being spoken or you lose them.
The final shot of the film was very touching and…
Review by 🎞 fatima <3 ★★★★

cant describe how i feel, it was amazing
Review by juicebocs ★★½

Need more Timothée, less burials, and less Christian Bale close-ups.
Review by JHuedo ★★★½

Western con iluminación muy cuidada, genial bale, fotografía académica... pero de alguna forma se me ha hecho larga y a la vez me ha dejado con ganas de más. Que cosas.
Review by NourUma ★★★½

un western moderne un peu moins manichéen vraiment sympathique
Review by Hunter Thomas ★★★★

After a rewatch, I am so close to bumping this one up to a five. One of the best revisionist westerns I’ve ever seen... I still don’t understand how a film as beautiful, human, and anti-imperialist as this one is so overlooked and underappreciated. I love it.
Review by Deckisaskinjob ★★★★

One of the better recent Bale performances. Wes Studi as always. Beautifully shot, paced, and unique. Highly recommemded.
Review by nevu ★★★★½

christian bale te amo fuerte
Review by WinnieThePugh ★★★★★

Just a fantastic film. Literally every single actor in this movie is great, whoever the bearded dude is lays it all out there, along with everyone else, especially Rosamund Pike. S/o to the director, really incredibly shot and well made movie. I loved the ending and Christian bale is just the ultimate mans man.
Review by mirucar ★★★★

Müthiş çarpıcı bir drama. Beklentilerimin çok üstünde çıktı. Bir Joker veya Taxi Driver gibi ana karakter üzerinden ilerleyen psikolojik gerilim filmlerinden değil ama yine de Joe'nun gelişimini çok başarılı aktarıyor. Bunda Christian Bale'in de payı büyük tabi.
İki tarafın da haklı, iki tarafın da kötü olduğu bir ahlaki terazide buluyorsunuz kendinizi. Ekranda görünen her bir karakter güçlü bir arka plana sahip ve bu terazide önemli bir yer tutuyorlar.
Review by sanna ♡'s sp ★★½

ok
Review by Joe 🎞 ★★★½

Solid all around with beautiful cinematography. A bit slow but a stellar cast that delivers some engaging storytelling and action sequences. Happily surprised (not enough Timothee though)