From Deseret News archives:
Excerpts from "September Dawn" reviews
Few motion pictures have generated the interest of the Latter-day Saint community like "September Dawn," which was released this weekend. Following are excerpts from reviews by film critics around the United States:
�My opinion is that there isn't anything to be gained in telling this story in this way. It generates bad feelings on all sides, and at a time when Mormons are at pains to explain they are Christians, it underlines the way that these Mormons consider all Christians to be 'gentiles.' The Mormons are presented in no better light than Nazis and Japanese were in Hollywood's World War II films. Wasn't there a more thoughtful and insightful way to consider this historical event? If there is a concealed blessing, it is that the film is so bad. . . . I am trying as hard as I can to imagine the audience for this movie. Every time I make any progress, it scares me.� Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
�'Inspired' by a dark chapter in American history, 'September Dawn' presents a ham-fisted cautionary tale of religious fanaticism that would have been hooted out of even 19th-century theaters as melodrama of the most lurid kind.� Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore Sun
�Even if one gets past the movie's controversial depictions (which are based on historical facts), there is the matter of its second-rate, made-for-television fare the poor battle choreography, the wooden editing and the cheesy writing, which makes everyone seem ridiculously on-the-nose about their dialogue and their religious beliefs . . . It's a soap opera posing as moral outrage.� Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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