garythomas-32684 Kevin costner is a actor who seems so underated, in this he directs as well as acts and it is the best work he has ever done. Every frame of this movie has had so much care and attention to detail put into it. You find yourself caring about every single character, the score for the film is perect. It's a epic movie with a epic run time but one that flys by and one you don't want to end. If you want a escape from all the cgi and one dimensional charcaters then this movie is a tough one to beat.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Dances With Wolves" (1990)U.S. historian and writer Michael Blake (1945-2015) presents producer/director Kevin Costner with Academy-Awarded screenplay adaptation on his reowned book, when Hollywood star Kevin Costner also taking on the highly-identifiable character of Lieutenant John Dunbar, depositioned as blue-coat Northern Union army soldier to become a "Neutrum" of a human being in a run-down western-front outpost only to witness the beauty of a soon disappearing uncharted territory, turning the picture from a "civil-war" movie into a harmonic inception of as "Western" by indulging deep-diving interpretation of the Native American's way of life in a highlighted live-action buffalo hunting scene accompanied by hyper-realistic animatronics by Howard Berger and associates, known for extraordinary special visual effect works for "The Chronics of Narnia" (2005).Director Kevin Costner, accompanied by cinematographer Dean Semler, together they ensure a splendidly-received 180 minutes Hollywood-entertainment movie with a peaking balancing act of being able to turn tides for a seemingly-doomed main character to follow a journey self-destruction to self-reflections over stranger-encounters as cultural differences with nature-bonding Native Americans, suspense stake-raising hostile tribe battles to get literally reborn in his own skin to a match-making female-pendant orphan-character of a Non-Native, yet fully Native-educated woman called "Stand With A Fist", portrayed by actress Mary McDonnell to eye-reading trauma-inhabited proportions, when "Dances With Wolves" finds its exceptional story-telling language in panoramic landscapes apart from any "Civil-War" scenario, despite opening sequence confusions with an all-hope-refusing John Dunbar to leave his fate in the hands of some frontier-cowering soldiers with rifles behind wooden bars on both sides.When this motion picture in itself becomes the star-picture to be the Best Picture of 1990 to remembered for; then mainly through a subconsciously-mesmerizing score composition by John Barry (1933-2011) to all extent the Academy-Award for the best film music had been earned among seven wins in total reception, only leaving out the nominated cast, inlcuding Kevin Costner and Graham Greene in the supporting role of "Kicking Bird", who together get along in almost juvenile trust of being strangers, featuring famous title-given bonfire dance of Dunbar with a lonely-parie-wolf called "Two Socks", when an emerging new world of a continuously heavy-hitting as laws-of-the-gun-indulging "Wild West" become future motion picture promises of an Industry in constant search for the next story to tell.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

abraham-59605 This is simply a masterpiece. The story of an outsider joining a indigenous community is not a new one, but this would have to be the greatest iteration of that tale. How Kevin Coaster pulled off directing, producing and starring in such a big film is amazing. The epic canvas that this period film is set is so beautifully captured by Dean Semler's cinematography and enhanced by the music of John Barry. I have seen the film no less than a dozen times. A must for high definition viewing.

adam walworth I gave this movie a solid ten and the reason I did so is because of how the movie touches me, it moves me spiritually and it probably moved everyone who watched it in a similar way as it moved me. Before I saw this movie I probably wouldn't believe that this was possible for a man, especially during this time zone, this story has impacted me so much, I feel like no matter what the challenge is I have to over come it with flying colors. The journey that the main character faces is at first a relieve for him but as he gets further down the road in this journey he realizes that it is going to a pain to survive in this environment and its not going to be much fun but you gotta do what you got to do to get through life and this man does just that.