I've become numb to violence; doing something repeatedly makes you get used to it. Hostiles is directed by Scott Cooper, who also adapted the screenplay from a story by Donald E. Stewart. The film stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Rory Cochrane, John Benjamin Hickey, Jeremiah Wilks, and Jesse Plemons. Max Richter composed the music, and Masanobu Takayanagi was in charge of cinematography. The movi…

It had several elements I found enjoyable, but ultimately it wasn't successful when considered as a complete piece. The title is misleading; it seemed like there would be weddings, but those were replaced with funerals instead. My rating is two and a half stars.

“Hostiles,” which appeared near the end of 2017, comes from writer and director Scott Cooper and features Christian Bale as a well-known Army captain tasked with guiding a terminally ill chief (Wes Studi) and his family from New Mexico to Montana in 1892. He’s compelled to do so against his better judgment. Rosamund Pike portrays a woman who has lost loved ones, whom the group encounters during their journey. Rory Co…