LoginPop Quiz: The Ghost and the Darkness is to lions as *blank* is to sharks. Is the answer: A.) Jaws B.) A Sharks Tale C.) Open Water OR D.) Jaws: The Revenge ?
If you answered D, youre right!!! Because The Ghost and the Darkness is one of the most sh*t-tastic major-studio release films to ever be made and it is about man-eating lions. Val Kilmer plays Dudley Do-Right on safari except with a worse haircut and an awful British accent and Michael Douglas is terribly mis-cast (they may as well have pulled names out of a hat) as a renegade, tough-guy, arm-chair philosopher, back-woods, grade A, as in a**hole, bullshi**er. The film flirts with the idea of legitimately portraying various and sometimes clashing cultures of native-African tribesmen, Kenyan towns-people, and imported Indian railway workers (both hindu and muslim) but then ultimately settles into bland, thoughtless treatments perhaps slightly less offensive than your average South Park portrayal. But of course this all takes a back seat to the most uninspired of showdowns in recent memory between Man and Nature, capped off by a dull, lazy resolution that insults (more than this review ever could) the good-natured tenacity that carried us viewers all the way to the steamy, stinking end of this sh*t-bucket of a movie.
The Ghost and the Darkness Reviews
The Ghost and the Darkness review
Posted : 13 years, 7 months ago on 2 October 2010 11:58
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An average movie
Posted : 13 years, 7 months ago on 12 September 2010 08:15
To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, I thought I might as well check it out. Eventually, even though it didn’t really get much love when it was released, I have to admit it, I thought it was actually not bad at all. I mean, sure, as it was pointed out by many people, it's a little bit like 'Jaws' but instead of sharks, you have some lions but I thought it was actually fairly entertaining. Indeed, even though the whole thing was not really original and rather predictable, it was still in fact well made and Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer both delivered some decent performances here. There is also the issue that it was supposedly based on some real events but so many elements were made up (for example, the character played by Douglas has never actually existed), that the tale did lose some of its impact. Anyway, to conclude, even though it is nothing really amazing, I thought it was a decent watch and I think it is definitely worth a look though, especially if you like the genre.
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