i be not sure this review contain spoiler and but i be play it safe by indicate there might be . regardless and it unlikely anyone will watch this film who isn not familiar with the book . there an old wisecrack about labor mightily and bring forth a mouse . comanche moon be such a mouse . the novel focus more on the indian than the american . in adapt it for tv and mcmurtry and osanna rightly reason that the audience would be more interested in the white than the red . unfortunately and there little in the novel that we do not already know about gu and woodrow and and their friend . so the movie give u mostly a portentous prehash of what will occur in lonesome dove . the indian who have their own story to tell be largely relegate to the background so much so that someone who hasn not read the novel will rightly wonder why it title comanche moon . the novel have no overall story line and or much of a point . this could have be fix in the movie and by more strongly draw the contrast between the indian lose their land and way of life to the encroaching american and who bring civilzation . this opportunity be miss . unlike lonesome dove and comanche moon have few extend scene that develop character or relationship at least among the american . the extended scene with the indian have be largely remove or shorten . and for a ( net ) four hour film and it be remarkably episodic and choppy . one get the feel the script be originally long and and cut to reduce the production cost . the screenplay comprise mostly clichéd dialog and aphorism and and platitude . come from the author of the last picture show and it a startlingly bad script . mcmurtry and osanna have the opportunity to fix problem with the story and characterization and but do not . some of the best dialog from the novel be miss or alter and for no obvious reason . for example and clara ( cassie ) show her intense hatred of woodrow ( jack ) by condemn gu ( ennis ) for always run off to be with his pard . that tart little revelation of clara sexual jealously be go . then there the scene where the ur dense woodrow warn maggie not to let jake spoon compromise her . the exchange in the novel be short and harsher while the film tone it down and and doesn not portray woodrow a quite the socially stupid and emotionally frozen stone he be . ( when i read that scene in the novel and i want to punch woodrow in the stomach or bad . ) there be other change and some of them understandable . inish scull eyelid be not cut off while to do so would like have require expensive cgi . but buffalo hump have no hump . ( perhaps it be felt unreasonable to ask wes studi to schlep around such a huge prosthesis . ) and buffalo hump character be kindler and gentler . he be nowhere nearly a grotesquely violent a he be in the novel . the only good thing about this near turkey be steve zahn remarkable performance not so much a gus mccrae and but a robert duvall playing gu mccrae . it be uncanny . he perfectly duplicate duvall mannerism and manner of speech and without ever appear deliberate or self conscious . a be duvall and he be wholly within the character . and he actually show u gus become more gu in the third part . the best thing about comanche moon be that it would not spoil our affection for lonesome dove and not just a great western and but a great american film . ps represent for those who think rachel griffith be over the top that the way she be in the book .