For starters this movie is riddled with stereotypes, cliches and historical inaccuracies that made me roll my eyes multiple times while watching this flop. Your intelligence will be insulted multiple times as a result. A recently freed slave woman is somehow an expert horse rider, all orphans have dirty faces, Native American tribes show up in regions they would never be, the main character, a union soldier, apparently has his uniform dry cleaned on a daily basis... the list goes on. Beyond that, the premise is ridiculous. A soldier, believed to be dead, has to track down his children who were sent to an orphanage in Missouri by train. So he knows exactly where they are going and who they will be with once they get there. Yet, he chooses to follow the train through hostile territory on horseback with one other man. By the end of the Civil War, the B&O railroad were running multiple trains between major cities on a daily basis. He could have just gotten on a train. In fact, he could have waited three days and boarded a train and gotten to Missouri faster, well fed and well rested. It's just a bad premise for a high body count shoot-em-up with a little added cruelty. A.
Review of Hostile Territory
