Crooked Arrows (2012)

Crooked Arrows: Directed by Steve Rash. With Crystal Allen, Brandon Routh, Gil Birmingham, Chelsea Ricketts. A story centered on a Native American lacrosse team making its way through a prep school league tournament.

“The potential was there, ruined by weak dialog formulas, poor character development using 80u0026#39;s cheesy hero meets heroine hard to get rot as something that adds cultural depth, really? Then it turns into a lacrosse movie with script and scenes clearly someone lacking sports background of any kind, felt like one of those terrible after school specials of 1980u0026#39;s.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf you can survive the terrible direction, script u0026amp; dialog, some good touchstones of Native American Indian Tribal Peoples are within, but felt belittled by unfocused script, unforced errors, and poor acting/direction by the 2 primary love interest characters especially (never saw either before nor since, so must not have been just me).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOf all people politically of Our Founding Fathers and early days referenced, choosing Ben Franklin to make u0026#39;the Bogey Manu0026#39; of whites shows intent with the producers and/or director… Ben Franklin wanted to coexist with Native American Indian Tribal Peoples, not be at war at all… in part, his desire to make the turkey a focal point in colonial communities was to domestically cultivate turkey like chickens to take focus off killing bison, which involved violating Native American Indian Tribal Land Boundaries…Turkey cultivation would alleviate the pressure on white men hunting illegally on tribal lands, helping to keep the peace.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo omitting such fools as Custer and Andrew Jackson as easy and actual Bogey Men may seem u0026#39;edgyu0026#39; to pick on Ben Franklin, but it revealed the hand of influence on script and final product had a propaganda agenda more than making a quality movie as their priority.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSadly the fact throughout, painting Native American Indian Tribal Peoples as emotionally and intellectually stunted, prone to war and poorly educated subliminally in half the scenes (80u0026#39;s movies especially did that narrating white suburban teens and young adults, hyping cultural identity clashes, but a 2012 movie should know better than to paint a tribal communities as a monolith of immature malcontents and poorly informed as a whole, needing a half white metrosexual oiled male model to save their village?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIu0026#39;m white, and thatu0026#39;s a subliminal formula that whites are the saviors… Gandhi, Tutu, Mandela, Confucius, Douglas, MLK…long list of non-white amazing noble u0026amp; benevolent humans that stood up to Englandu0026#39;s Royal Family, The Last of the Roman Empire…who Our Founding Fathers only defeated BECAUSE OF Ben Franklin.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt was Englandu0026#39;s failed policies regarding Native American Indian Tribal peoples in the first place that caused the problems, seeing the indigenous peoples as u0026quot;non-humanu0026quot; without Magna Carta rights, so no, if Ben Franklin remained loyal to Royal Family, we were going to be a UK colony to this day (do your research; Iu0026#39;m not joking…WW Brand, The First American, explains quite well), in which case, our current caste system of implied race privilege would be fully anchored by CAUCASIAN Royal Family mandates, placing tribal communities as u0026#39;primatesu0026#39; per their terms, meaning NO LAND RIGHTS AT ALL, NO TREATIES.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo this Ben Franklin slip is reflective of that Rupert Murdoch Mossad subliminal messaging to keep America stumbling.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd it shows throughout, plodding through scenes of fabricated controversies that belittle the real controversies.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe reviews going more than 7 (if youu0026#39;re Native American Indian AND love lacrosse, your personal connection might cause momentary lapse of reason to be generous, but even with such deep connection, no way a sane human goes 8+ on this trainwreck, and a 10?! There are a few u0026#39;10u0026#39; movies, perhaps 200 tops u0026#39;10u0026#39; ranked flicks ever made. They are the litmus.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis movie is well below half of a u0026#39;10u0026#39; score, and Iu0026#39;m being generous for mostly just recognition of Native American Indian Tribal Peoples.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIu0026#39;m just not so sure bad movies about important topics help, so 4 feels generous to be honest.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s like if you run a real business in the real world, then go home watching American Apprentice TV show… Dumpu0026#39;s Tv show had very little resemblance to reality how business works.. being further evidence they knew nothing about the subject matter (the premise of looking for u0026#39;who to fire!u0026#39; until youu0026#39;re down to just one means your company is by design happy about high turnover so a megalomaniac narcissist can fire employees would result in a company resembling the magaclown show we just witnessed still hanging around like a bad wart that wonu0026#39;t go away.).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJust too many mistakes by choice on script and dialogue to go higher for me.”