4/10
Trainwreck.
17 April 2021
It's not decisive, but the title alone was a bad, bad omen from the start. Ohh, edgy. Making violent white supremacist rhetoric the title of the show is a choice, but I'm not sure what informed that choice. Aside from "Ohhhh edgy".

It's not a documentary. It's some hybrid of historical re-enactment and behind the scenes of making a historical re-enactment. It's all actors, and we're explicitly told why these actors were chosen ala "this Swedish woman with Seminole ancestry will be playing a Seminole woman." That's great. I really would have been far happier with a narrator and still images of real people. Or even artist renderings. Because I tuned in for a documentary. Not fantasy with imagined mundane interactions etc.

I think Josh Hartnett is a great and under-utilized actor, and I know he has Native American ancestry, I really wish this was a better project. A good movie. Or a good documentary. Instead it is neither.
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