The only bad thing about Kevin Costner's acting is his voice... It just doesn't fit in, with anything...!Bill
I thought he was excellent in "Dances With Wolves". Can't think of anyone else who could have done it better. I especially liked his narration.
Few movies have so well captured the romance of the post Civil War era and the tragedy of the plight of the Indians. The sense of impending doom and the end of a culture was inescapable.
The movie pulled no punches re: inter-tribal warfare and the lack of tolerance for the Indian way of life by encroaching civilization.
I've been to "Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump" (a World Heritage site) west of Calgary a few times and discussed it with a Blackfoot interpreter. He thought it did a good job of representing the Plains Indian life style. Once his people became master horsemen, they no longer used the buffalo jump and hunted from horseback.