Uncover the Hidden Gem: The Underrated Western Streaming Now

The most underrated Western of the 21st century is streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple TV+.

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There have been some epic Westerns of the last 25 years from Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Revenant to No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood and True Grit.

But the most underrated of them all was tragically overlooked for Oscars when it released in 2017.

The most underrated Western movie of the 21st century featuring an epic cast is streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple TV+.

Christian Bale stars as Captain Joseph J Blocker in Hostiles, a bloody and brutal Western with emotional performances from Bale and his co-stars Rosamund Pike, Jesse Plemons and pre-fame Timothée Chalamet and Jonathan Majors.

He and a detail are ordered by the president to escort a cancer-stricken Cheyenne war chief (Wes Studi) and his family through the Wild West to their Montana home.

Meanwhile, the story the script was based on was penned in the 1990s by the late screenwriter Donald E Stewart.

His widow discovered the draft when moving house and pitched it to Cooper.

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