White Man's Burden (1995) Reviews

Even though it is quite an obscure feature, I was quite eager to check it out. Indeed, it was actually the first movie starring John Travolta after his impressive come-back in 'Pulp Fiction' and even though it was barely noticed when it was released, I always thought that it sounded quite intriguing. Indeed, the whole concept behind this movie was to reverse the raciale roles in the USA. In this parallel world, the black people are wealthy and ruling the world while the white people is a poor minority living in the ghettos. It was definitely an interesting concept but, to be honest, I find it rather difficult to judge the whole thing. Indeed, somehow, I ended up with a cheap dvd only dubbed in French (on the cover, it was clearly stated that there was also an original version in English but whatever...). Anyway, even in French, it was pretty obvious that the whole thing didn’t completely work though. Indeed, this concept would have been awesome for a an episode of 'The Twilight Zone' but with a full length feature, after 45 minutes, they basically didn’t know anymore what else to do so they threw in some rather underwhelming and predictable kidnapping scheme. Still, even though it wasn't great, it was still an interesting feature and I think it is worth a look.