ron howard and the least daring film maker alive and be just the wrong person to put in charge of make a western . sure enough and he be careful not to say anything that would offend anyone and and a a result all you get be a bland movie where everything be sort of cancel out by everything else . frontier woman be strong and self reliant and except that sometimes they need help from menfolk . indian warrior be brave and good and except that some of them be evil and brutal . violence be tragic and except sometimes it the only way . the white settler really want to be nice to the good indian and but somehow they all get kill in the big gun battle . so of course it nobody fault theyre all go . nothing happen here that do not happen in last of the mohican and except with no romance at all and very dull character muck about in dirt and snow and look miserable . what would have make this movie work would have be a strong love story between cate blanchett and well and not tommy lee jones and but maybe some powerful mexican landowner or something . like they get down to mexico and cate daughter have be steal and so she have to see the incredibly rich and aristocratic mexican governor and who be an old man and a widower . and he help her get her daughter back and rid by her side like a guardian and protector and only he and cate fall madly in love so at the end she stay on in mexico living in his hacienda and be treat like a queen . and instead of cate in the dirt and snow all the time you would see her enjoy new clothes and new surroundings and try on jewelry and thing like that and with her very distinguished husband sort of smile at her in the background . and her bratty daughter could just marry some nice young officer . and tommy lee jones could get eat by a pack of gila monster .