The Convert

2023
1h 59min

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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 between Maori tribes.

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Un predicador laico que llega a un asentamiento británico en 1830. Su pasado violento pronto se pone en tela de juicio y su fe puesta a prueba, ya que se encuentra atrapado en medio de una s... Leer todoUn predicador laico que llega a un asentamiento británico en 1830. Su pasado violento pronto se pone en tela de juicio y su fe puesta a prueba, ya que se encuentra atrapado en medio de una sangrienta guerra entre tribus maoríes.Un predicador laico que llega a un asentamiento británico en 1830. Su pasado violento pronto se pone en tela de juicio y su fe puesta a prueba, ya que se encuentra atrapado en medio de una sangrienta guerra entre tribus maoríes.

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- 1 premio ganado y 5 nominaciones en total

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Trivia
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 007: Otro día para morir (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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7/10

A great result from a not-usual film

Guy Pearce plays Munro, a lay preacher tasked with looing after a new British settlement on the coast of 1830's New Zealand. The area is riven still with tribal wars and Munro becomes involved in these by accident, during other endeavours.

While this does not pretend to be an accurate retelling of events, it does portray very much the feelings of the time. Tribes who think revenge blood is the only redemption, explorers who think they have a right to other lands, a King who seeks to rule over lands he's never even seen, and the power of the passionate belief of a handful of people.

Munro, an ex soldier who has realised that war is not the route to peace, attempts to convince 2 warring tribes to find a more peaceful way. Of course, this ends in a brief war. However his influence appears to have lain on the victor as he seeks peace from now on with the vanquished.

There is of course a lot of sacrifice along the way of loved ones, some dirty dealing, some giving up of values and some compromise. But is that a fair price to pay for peace?

It's very, very well acted, and the story flows quickly yet in great detail. Guy Pearce is his usual excellent self and the story is inherently interesting and emotional. I liked it a lot so I gave it a solid 7.