Whoo, this is a bad one. I can't decide what was the worst part-the overacting, the horrible voice-over, the many pointless scenes, or the pompous smarmy 'oh, aren't they cute' attitude of both of the main characters towards the lost tribes people. Let's start, however, with the ever dreadful Tom Berenger. This guy is the Bud Lite of acting-not a lot of body, and missing much of the flavor. His morose tracker is so unlikable that after the first ten minutes you're praying that the Indians get him. And the good lady anthropologist is almost as bad. She is thoroughly annoying throughout the film. My least favorite scene of her has to be when she's riding away with the tribe at the end to study them. The look on her face is that of a professor who's just discovered an interesting new species of insect to study. It's plainly obvious that she doesn't think of these folks as real people. But then, they're never really presented as real people by the writer/director of this piece of crap. They're more like those wax dummies they have in museums to show kids how our ancestors lived their lives, rather than people with personalities of their own. Sure the costumes were pretty-but if I want to look at a caricature, I'll go to the museum and look at the wax dummies myself. Better than wasting two hours of my precious time on this horrible movie. I think my least favorite scene in this whole movie-and this was a toss up-was when Tommy boy shows off his riding skills by reaching down to snatch up his hat off the ground before jumping the hood of his father-in-law the sheriff's patrol car. A totally unnecessary and completely stupid scene. Of course, that pretty much sums up most of the scenes in the film.
Review of Last of the Dogmen
