As I start my quarantine, I begin watching with S. Craig Zahler’s BONE TOMAHAWK a Western/Horror/Thriller hybrid that doesn’t pull any punches. Like all of Zahler’s films, it is a little too long, but I guess he wants us to really live with these characters.
It is always interesting watching any actor at anytime. Even smaller roles are filled with top notch actors like Evan Jonigkeit as the Deputy, Sid Haig as our opening death, and Zahn McClarnon (an actor I genuinely love seeing in anything) as a local refined Native American scholar. Like most films set in the west, the Native Americans are not treated as well as they should be and are constantly referred to as, "savages," which helps feed into the true savagery of the types of cavemen they are up against.
Kurt Russell acts just as good as Kurt Russell usually does and gives a little taste of how he will be in THE HATEFUL EIGHT three years later. While there is extreme graphic violence witnessed here, based on how people hyped it up I honestly expected it to be even more graphic. Still, despite its length, I enjoyed it.
