Hey everyone. I saw this film last night, a coworker had let me borrow the DVD. To be honest, the movie left me feeling somewhat indifferent. Having beforehand heard about the story it is based on, it is my opinion that this film had the potential to involve the audience emotionally in a great way, but in the end doesn't. My biggest objection to the film is in that it never took the time to explain why these people were attempting to make contact with the natives. Their motives are hinted at, seeing the characters make biblical decisions when presented with life-or-death scenarios involving the natives, but you never truly see the devotion of these missionaries towards what they believe and the mission they're carrying. If one was to walk into the theater having never heard of this film, one would just as much confuse these missionaries with scientists due to the lack of insight as to what they believe and why they are visiting these natives. I'm definitely not saying that the movie should've had a sermon in every scene, but it seems as though the filmmakers went to such an extent to make the movie unoffensive to non-believers that they stripped the characters of any passion towards their mission, resulting in a very impersonal film with flat, two-dimensional characters.