heyitsenricopollazo I'm not sure I've seen a movie truer to the book as this one. The first couple of scenes with David Arquette as Gus are brutal, but he gets better due to the fact he looks like a younger Gus. Overall it's a great tribute to a wonderful book!

osiang Like the original Lonesome Dove series, i'd say this one is about hardship, luck, and the diversity of characters that can fill up wild harsh times. The humour is really good and mostly revolves around the naivety of people in such dangerous unknown territory. The cast is the strongest thing about this series. I was expecting everyone to be attempting to fill in the traditional roles of a prequel (immitating the successful original's characters and mood) but this series has acting and characters that I've remembered for years after watching it as being all uniquely bizarre and also weirdly believable. The storytelling has a nice patience to it. It's a shame this isn't better known; I've read the original Lonesome Dove novel and loved it, and the same goes for the Robert Duvall Series (watch that first if u haven't already - it's really strong!), I enjoyed Return to lonesome Dove also but not as much as it gets a bit melodramatic and loses some of it's humour by that series. I've vaguely attempted to watch some of the other televised Lonesome Dove spinoffs/sequels (The Outlaw Years, namely) and couldn't get into them at all, rejecting them as crap pretty quickly. But Dead Man's Walk is a really nice thoughtful watch.

bajatexan Larry McMurtry always takes some liberties with history; however, he went off the reservation when dealing with Dead Man's walk. He portrayed the Mier Expedition as a "small undertaking" including having Big Foot Wallace and 3 others executed during the black bean selection. This whole section of the story was full of inaccuracies. There were 17 men executed --- and Big Foot Wallace wasn't one of them --- he lived to a ripe old age. Its a good story, however the cast was somewhat lackluster. I've read all of the McMurtry books and can see the characters come to life as in Lonesome Dove. I couldn't say the same for this adaption.

Erik I have not read the book, so I can't compare it. But, I hope that the book is not as slow as this movie. Some of the acting is very good, and so is some scenes, but I get the feeling that nothing really happens. It's just a long travel... I am sure that many of the scenes could have been done more exciting, and with more "feeling". Also, I don't get to know any of the crew, so when something happens with them, I don't have any special feeling for them. I actually didn't feel that this movie was that much about Woodrow Call and Augustus Macrae.For me, the material could have been cut down to about two hours without loosing the story.