Acknowledging it can be a fill-in-the-blank complaint for Hollywood films of its era like "Northwest Passage" to cite technical aptitude but a boring pace and rampant racism, well … so it goes.

Hollywood has a long history of misrepresenting Native Americans in Westerns, and while Northwest Passage isn’t a Western, the same problems apply.

A hard-boiled adventure yarn that doesn’t skimp on the harshness or nastiness of the situations on hand.

A rousing adventure story of epic proportions.