Christian Bale, doing a very fine job as a taciturn, battle-hardened US army captain in the early 1890s who is forced by his superiors to safely escort a dying Cheyenne chief — a man Bale’s character views as one of his most hated adversaries — and his family from New Mexico to Montana so that he can be buried where . Yes, there are all the clichés of Westerns that you have come to expect, but there’s more grit, bleakness and, yes, heart, than first meets the eye. (Some subtitles.)
