The Convert

2023
1h 59m

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6.4/10

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A lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in 1830s. His violent past is soon drawn into question and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war ... Read allA lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in 1830s. His violent past is soon drawn into question and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes.A lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in 1830s. His violent past is soon drawn into question and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes.

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6.4/10

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In a 2024 interview with Screen Rant, Lee Tamahori spoke about the depiction of Maori warfare in the film and the contrast of directing it versus his experience on Meurs un autre jour (2002): "...we haven't seen combat like this much on film. There's been a film called The Dead Lands (2020), and another couple. There is now a highly trained number of Rakau experts. This is Maori hand to hand combat with edged weapon. They call them patu and taiaha. So there's weapons like most indigenous cultures had spears clubs edged weapons. So there's a lot of people trained in that now, young Maori. They're all in the film. They're a combat unit, which we put together. Action is just something you make up in your head and you do it shot by shot by shot by shot, and work your way through it. To me it is always important, and in the difference between a James Bond action sequence and a Convert action sequence is The Convert the action has to be scarily authentic. It has to be brutal. It's fast. There's no slow motion, no trickery going on. It's just shot by shot by shot, edited down to a point. Whereas with something like most modern action films have speed ramps, and all sorts of post-production tricks on them. But I didn't want to do anything other than show the brutality of hand-to-hand combat as it was."

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When they land for the first time, Munro talks to the crew of the landing boat then rides his horse along the beach. There is a wide shot towards the end of this scene where the boat obviously isn't on the beach.

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8/10

Pleasantly surprising great movie.

I found this movie to be surprisingly great. The cinematography is breath-taking. The acting is exquisite. The story was very slow in one respect but not detailed enough in others. The pace was a tad slow for me, but failed to delve into character detail and the individual stories on the other hand. I believe this could have been a respectable mini-series if, for instance, the details of the young English girl and the Maori man were expanded or the relationship of Monroe (Pearce) and the woman (McKenzie) he met on the island, was drawn out in more detail. Some scenes are not for the faint-of-heart but they are tastefully done. But again I feel the need to mention the visual aspect of these beautiful islands. And speaking of details, I have to ask - knowing that Mr. Pearce is not only a great actor - but a skilled artist as well, did he do the drawings that were in the sketch book he carried? Being no stranger to performing portrait art myself, the sketches were amazing. As far as the subject matter, I had no idea of the history of New Zealand or the tribal inhabitants so I feel I learned a lot from watching The Convert, even though I read that it may not be a historically accurate as it could be. Over all, I was pleasantly surprised by this movie and already have viewed it twice to take everything in. I highly recommend it.