soldier blue be a movie with pretension represent pretension to be some sort of profound statement on man inhumanity to man and on the white man exploitation of and brutality towards indigenous people while a biting and unflinching and sardonic commentary on the horror of vietnam . well and sorry and but it fail miserably to be any of those thing . what soldier blue actually be be pernicious and trite and badly make and dishonest rubbish . another reviewer here hit the nail on the head in say that it appear to be a hybrid of two entirely different movie . what it be basically be a lame and clichéd and poorly act odd couple romance strauss and bergen overcome their prejudice about the other lifestyle and fall in love ( ah and bless ) bookended by two sicken massacre which wouldn not have be out of place in a lucio fulci splatter flick . there be no excuse for the repulsive and prurient and gore drench climax and in which cute little native american child be variously shot and sliced and dismembered and impale in loving and graphic close up and and large breast native american woman be molest and rap and string up no excuse and that be and except box office . ( the massacre itself and whilst repulsive in it misplaced intention and be very badly stag and shoot while a bunch of actor lie around with bright red paint smear on them and intercut with a few special effect sequence of beheading or dismemberment dismemberment and incidentally and which utilise real amputee in their filming . now that what i call exploitation . ) forget all the pap you have hear ( include the ludicrous commentary that begin and end the movie ) about this be a protest and an indictment of american brutality towards the native people . this film doesn not give a stuff about the plight of the cheyenne while have it do so it would have feature some involve native american character and would have lead u to get to know and to care about the nameless and faceless innocent who get slaughter at the climax . instead what we get be the silly white bread romance of bergen and strauss ( lousy actor both and in this at least ) and with plenty of blood and gut and sever head throw in to attract the curious . which be a terrible shame and because there be a movie to be make about the sand creek massacre and about all of the real life massacre the u ( and britain and and all so call civilised nation ) have participate in over the century ( iraq . ) . this just isn not that movie .