A very good movie

I wonder if a lot of people remember this movie but, somehow, it seems pretty much forgotten which is quite a shame. Indeed, when it was released, it was a big critical success and launched the once promising career of Lee Tamahori. Back then, I was very young when I saw it and I was definitely impressed. Basically, you don’t get to watch many movies about the Maoris and even though this one was a fairly traditional drama, I thought it was very powerful. Indeed, you get a glimpse of the struggle of this people who were once indeed great warriors but are nowadays outcasts and who very often don’t fit in very well in our modern world. After this promising debut, Lee Tamahori got his ticket for Hollywood and you could have hoped that he would make some great things there as well but, unfortunately, none of his following features was really good, the lowest poinht being probably ‘xXx: State of the Union’. I still have to see his last flick though, ‘Mahana’, which sounds quite interesting even though it didn’t get much love when it was released. Anyway, to conclude, I think it is a very good flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested by this subject.

8/10