The first important and well known Maori filmmaker, Lee Tamahori (“Once Were Warriors”)  gives us this period piece about an outsider, a preacher, out of his depth in an alien land which Europe is set on conquering and colonizing.

Pearce, a quixotic figure in the acting world, listening to his own drummer, seems the perfect choice to play a conflicted Man of Peace, a mere mortal among Maori warrior tribes.

July 12, we find if both actor and director recapture some of their former glory.