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 Ben Foster Stephen Lang Timothée Chalamet Jonathan Majors Q'orianka Kilcher Paul Anderson Ryan Bingham Peter Mullan Robyn Malcolm Scott Wilson Bill Camp John Benjamin Hickey Scott Shepherd Stafford Douglas David Midthunder Dicky Eklund Jr. Tanaya Beatty Luce Rains Scott G. Anderson Christopher Hagen Rod Rondeaux Ava Cooper Stella Cooper Show All…

Alternative Titles

하스타일, Недруги

history drama western

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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 truman ★★★★ 5

2017: the year of timothèe
Review by josh lewis ★ 9

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 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 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 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.

Recent reviews

Review by untitledarab ★★★★

They had us in the first half, I'm not gonna lie.
Overall, it is a great film that showcases the struggles that the Native Americans and the U.S. Army were facing. Although this story has been written decades ago by Donald E. Stewart (Who wasn't alive when those atrocities happened), it is a pretty well-written story. I was honestly ready to rate this zero stars for the first half of the film since they were concentrating on the bad all the natives did towards Americans (who their ancestors invaded, stole, raped and massacred the Natives of America). How can they be complaining after all the shit they have done to the people that were originally there?
Midway through the second…
Review by Magnolia Fan ★★★★

Kind of an All Time Christian Bale performance.
Review by Zaldeen ★★½

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Review by Fernie Aguirre

A million ways to die in the West,

Nah but fr this movie is sad af
Review by Max Victory ★★

A grim death march of a film. Bale plays a weary, half-traumatized army veteran but man, even if he was fresh at the start he'd be a wreck by the end! Being a colossal downer wouldn't be such a harsh mark against the film if there was more going on under the hood. Alas, this is a weak "both sides" take on the genocide of Native Americans, where an equivalence of honor and suffering is drawn between Bale's U.S. military captain and Studi's Cheyenne chief. I'm not here for it.
Review by John Combs ★★★★½

Still suprised at how little buzz this got. Super underappreciated western, this or Buster Scruggs is probably the best since Unforgiven.
Review by Jonty ★★★

Great film, brilliant story.
But for some reason it all felt very forced.
Review by kendraxxvii ★★★★½ 1

christian bale is so drunk off respecting women juice in this film, he forgot to take his don’t be racist pills!!
Review by mkcallahan05 ★★★★

Stunningly beautiful cinematography. Wrestled with the moral quandary that was the 1890s American West. I liked it much more than many of the reviews, although I agree it is unflinching in its portrayal.