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Utu

1983

Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War

Utu

1983

Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War

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86% TOMATOMETER · 7 reviews

80% AUDIENCE · 500 ratings

6.9/10 · 1.6K

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Plot summary

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.

Director

Geoff Murphy

Top cast

Anzac Wallace as Te Wheke

Martyn Sanderson as Vicar

Sean Duffy as Cpl. Jones

Wi Kuki Kaa as Wiremu

Tech specs

720p.BLU 1080p.BLU

988.33 MB

1280*682

English 2.0

Unrated

Subtitles

24 fps

1 hr 47 min

Seeds ...

1.98 GB

1920*1024

English 5.1

Unrated

Subtitles

24 fps

1 hr 47 min

Seeds 4

Comments 1

Michel1993_ 2040 days ago

Wow thank you YTS team you guys are amazing sometimes. This movie is part of 1001 Movies You Must See Before you Die Book list, that ive always wanted to see but never found a copy of it not even online. Geoff Murphy the late director also did the sci fi cult classic The Quiet Earth right after this one, and is Amazing. He went to Hollywood and did Young Guns 2 and Under Siege 2 Dark Territory and later second unit direction on The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Utu sure is a terrific forgotten cult movie.

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IMDb reviews

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8 / 10

New Zealand's equivalent to Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. This

Oaklee D

New Zealand's equivalent to Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. This NZ western is an unflinching film thats draws you in. For an film made in 1983 it has aged very…

7 / 10

A Revisionist Western in everything but setting, Utu

William L

A Revisionist Western in everything but setting, Utu transposes many of the same conflicts from arid desert to misty moors, technically different parties…

A Revisionist Western in everything but setting, Utu transposes many of the same conflicts from arid desert to misty moors, technically different parties sharing a similar conflict against colonialism, rapidly changing lifestyles, and disparate identities. The latter in particular is a major sticking point of the film, as Wallace's Te Wheke, initially a soldier in the employ of the British, instigates a bloody guerilla campaign against them in retaliation for an attack on his village; he is not presented as a pure-hearted man bent of virtuous revenge, but instead as a nigh-schizophrenic member of two conflicting backgrounds forced against his will to reconcile them. His behavior is erratic and brutal, and it makes for a much more solid character than a generic revenge-fantasy protagonist. His 'introduction' after his declaration of utu (revenge) is particularly well-composed and shocking, as the audience witnesses a sermon against violence from an English preacher only for Te Wheke to walk in, toss the man a pistol, and proceed to behead him with a hatchet before delivering a speech against the foreign invaders with the priest's head dripping blood on his own pulpit. Anzac Wallace feels particularly strong in the part, a surprise given his lack of prior experience in film. The 'Redux' restoration makes the film look fantastic, with exceptional on-location shooting that makes use of the unique landscape of the country in a way that studio productions with all of their investment in CG still can't emulate properly. There are parts of the film that I'm way less of a fan of, particularly a tortured romantic subplot involving relatively green Lt. Scott (Johnson) and a Maori woman of seemingly shifting motivations, Bristowe's Kura, which seems to pop up sporadically and with little overall significance beyond offering a counter to Te Wheke; Scott is the English-heritage Kiwi who finds himself drifting from loyalty to the Crown by the local lifestyle, but the transition is not nearly as compellingly crafted as that of his counterpart. Still, the film remains surprisingly overlooked outside of New Zealand, and deserving of a wider audience; shame it's not more readily accessible. (3.5/5)

8 / 10

Based off the New Zealand wars between the

Jelisije J

Based off the New Zealand wars between the colonist and the natives that shows that war is not always black and white and that their are both bad and good guys…

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