Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18788 in VHS
• Released on: 1996-12-30
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 89 minutes

Customer Reviews

About Average...
Raven Hawk was a bit of a disappointment, considering the makeup of the cast: John de Lancie (Star Trek's Q) and Mitch Pileggi (Walter Skinner from the X-Files) among others. The film brings to the screen the story of an Indian girl whose parents were murdered by agents of a large coorperation, which wanted to build a nuclear waste disposal plant inside an Indian reservation. If that wasn't enough they framed the girl and had her convicted of her parents' deaths.
In short, the acting is about average, the dialogues are below average, while the plot is above average and quite interesting; the common denominator being "average."
Some of the reviewers were expecting nudity and were let down resulting in quite a few low review scores. To that, one has to add the poor dialogues and the bad choice of lines that many of the actors were given: "She remained primitively tied to her Indian culture." No comment is required on the use (or misuse) of the word "primitive" here.
As for the rating, it's not really R-Rated material as it is PG-13; no sex, not too much violence, very little blood.
In a nutshell, Raven Hawk is a low budget film and it clearly shows. It's an okay movie, and that's about it; No masterpiece here...

RavenHawk - Silence is Golden
Rachel Mclish is totally AWESOME!!! Rachel reminds me of a Greek Goddess. She packs a punch in this movie. Although, her lines are few theirs lots of action. She doesn't really need to say much. The movie is not only avenging her murdered parents, but about government corruption, special interest, collusion, and a toxic waste site on Indian Land.

Rachel, sophisticated,cool,calm,& collect, gets the job done as she eliminates the competition, or should I say SCUM. Payback, is much deserved. Way to go, Rachel!!!

Ravenhawk, excellent
I normally do not enjoy movies that are full of conflict and at first I chose not to see Ravenhawk. But I kept coming back to the movie and reading the back of the box for the plot and decided to take a chance that this might have a moral message. I was extremely impressed with the plot and the way that the individual characters were portrayed. You could relate to the feelings of the lead character and understand her pain and depth of her feelings. It was very well acted and the actions scenes where realistic and all neccessary to the over all plot. There was no wasted action or emotion and all the elements of the movie came together, I thought, to give it a well rounded look at all sides of the issues. Even if you do not enjoy action movies with fighting you might still enjoy this movie. Especially if you enjoy native american drama that has a strong spiritual and family base message.