I would've liked to give this a genuine thumbs-up, but the writers took way too many liberties with the script that go against the accepted facts of the event.
*SPOILERS BELOW*
Some of the glaring issues are:
What a joke! I can understand some differences when you're trying to compress a story into 90 minutes and trying to make it all flow smoothly, but this was really botched.
The equivalent would be like making a movie about the Twin Towers and having only one of them collapse.
*SPOILERS BELOW*
Some of the glaring issues are:
- There were TWO Indian guides in the real story - They make Foster out to be some cannibalistic maniac who can't wait to kill his next victim. - They drew sticks to see who would be a sacrifice, but according to the evidence, the party was unable to go through with killing the person. - Graves (the father) did not kill himself. - And the worst inaccuracy is that they had Foster killed by Fosdick's wife, when Foster was one of the few men who SURVIVED.
What a joke! I can understand some differences when you're trying to compress a story into 90 minutes and trying to make it all flow smoothly, but this was really botched.
The equivalent would be like making a movie about the Twin Towers and having only one of them collapse.