Everyone is a Hostile in Scott Cooper's Revisionist Western

Scott Cooper's western, Hostiles, starts at a U.S. army outpost in New Mexico, where Captain Joseph Blocker, played by Christian Bale, is ordered to escort a Cheyenne chief to his ancestral land in Montana. Chief Yellow Hawk had been imprisoned in New Mexico for seven years for committing atrocities during the Indian Wars. Now dying of cancer, the chief is Blocker's mortal enemy. His orders come from "back East" in Washington, D.C., in reaction to negative press reports...

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