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This movie is beautifully shot in the breathtaking reservation area of Northern New Mexico. It has some really fine actors - some of them unfortunately wearing "Indian" pancake. And it has some really foolish ideas about, like, man, our cultural priorities. ...Man.Released at the tail-end of the first wave of "social consciousness" in the 1970s, "Nightwing" is a wicker basket full of all that decade's mumbo-jumbo curios: fetishistic treatment of Native-Americans, kneejerk "environmental" shortsightedness and a relentless anti-Christian slant. In short, this pow-wow is drummed up straight from the Hollywood Hills reservation; it so reeks of tapas-bar manifesto, the air around it practically bends light waves. The most amusing aspect is its application of what can only be called Carlos Casteneda Forensics: The tribal cop ingests some hallucinogenic roots to break the case. Cool! If this crap mindset didn't still blinker us so relentlessly, this nonsense would be amusing, as is the idea of "protecting" native lands from voracious oil exploration (and... gosh... tribal employment) by setting the canyons afire! Sometimes the most progressive ideas are the most bust-out stupid.Best scene: Some cardboard evil/cowardly honkies drive campers over their own to escape the hysterically funny mechanical bats.
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