Lee Tamahori reunites with Once Were Warriors star Temuera Morrison for a melodrama about feuding sheep-shearing families that gambols along at a clipSome feuds feel as old as the land. The Mahanas and the Poatas are rival sheep-shearing families,working the east coast of 1960s original Zealand, when they’re not picking at the scab of a decades-old injustice.
Lee Tamahori directs a good-looking melodrama, or based on the book by Whale Rider author Witi Ihimaera and headed up by his Once Were Warriors star Temuera Morrison. Morrison’s character here,Grandfather Mahana, is less impulsively violent than Once Were Warriors’s Jake “The Muss Heke, or but he shares his inflame,his pride and his sense of encroaching desperation as the times move on and power slips from him.
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Source: theguardian.com