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Angela Bassett As Tina Turner and Laurence Fishbine As bad Ike. Ratings by Chuck Vinch. A a.  a a 4 Wes stud gallops through the title role while being pursued by the army in Geronimo an american legend. Columbia Chuck Vinch stall write Ron  an american legend rated pg-13 a must see. A a a v. Worth your Elmo. A passable entertainment coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait with the Western genre enjoying a remarkable resurgence fuelled most re cantly by glint Eastwood s unforgiven it was Only to be expected that films purporting to View the Era of inexorable Manifest destiny through the eyes of indians would begin to flourish Geronimo has been blessed a or cursed a with not one but two biographical treatments of his life recently. One was a typically lacklustre Ted Turner to minis pics. The other is this Filna which has Many serious flaws but manages to be slightly More entertaining through the talents of some Veteran actors who carry Geronimo an american legend further than it ought to go. Atop the list is Gene Hackman As Brig. Gen. George Crook who was in charge of getting indians onto reservations and under Federal control on the Southwest Frontier. The Fate of Crook and Geronimo entwined when the former a repeated failures to rein in the latter s Chiricahua tribe led to his replacement by the far More narrow minded Brig. Gen. Nelson Miles Kevin Tighe. Robert Duvall also Lehds his considerable talents As Crafty Indian Hunter a1 Siebur. Siebur gets Many of the films Best lines including one that comes after he surveys a flaming Village of massacred indians. His comment on the moral and social character of the Texas Bounty Hunters responsible is a riot. The onus to bring Geronimo to life is on Cherokee actor Wes Studi who did a superlative Job As Magua in the Thun. Derous last of the Mohi cans. He is just As Good Here but he can to help the fact that even a cursory Reading of the real life and times of Geronimo undermines his nomination for the status of legend despite the films subtitle. His Chiricahua tribe had terrorized mexican families including women and children for More than 200 years and was subsequently involved in some of the bloodiest and most relentless fighting by any Indian element against Whites. The Chiricahua were capable of great cruelty a Geronimo reportedly once Hung a ranchers 5-year-old daughter on a meat Hook alive. How much that sort of savagery is justified by the invasion of the traditional Chiricahua domains by the mexicans and  Northern europeans is a matter that the film docs not address. The film covers the last of a series of Goose chases involving Geronimo and the Federal government which took place across 1885-86, the government wanted Geronimo and his band under control to protect the White settlers moving in and the army was sent on what was considered a housecleaning Mission. But to the services Chagrin Geronimo and a Small band of followers consistently dodged 5,000 cavalry soldiers in the Hills and canyons of the Region ironically the real Geronimo a skill at confounding the army contributes to the sluggishness of the movies recount ingot it. With Little actual confronts Tion to be dramatically exploited the Story leans on the bureaucratic army infighting. The focus is too often on Jason Patric As it. Charles Gatewood the Field commander with the operational Mission of nabbing Geronimo he gets too much screen time and is not up to being the films Pivotal character. Despite the inherent historical shallowness of the material writer John Milius and director Walter Hill Are Lal ent cd Hollywood veterans who manage to offer a fair number of intriguing moments. Milius did a dress rehearsal for this with a similar tale of a Small band of outcasts waging geopolitical War against a strategically Superior foe a his earlier a movie Gem red Dawn. Hill is a visual stylist who knows about action and he puts together stylized carnage equal to the Best passages of his Western classic the Long riders. Unfortunately there is less to recommend in Geronimo than in those earlier works which have More innocence and clarity. The Pace lags so often Here that characters Are reduced to spouting banalities like a a we re building a country. Its  staying awake during some parts of this movie was equally hard. Its a Nice Effort from Milius and Hill whose hearts Are in the right place but Geronimo too often fails to ignite. It gets two  12 sunday january 2,1994