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Summary: The Ghost and The Darkness
Review: This is by far one of our most favorite movies and is based on a true story. It's intense!
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Summary: The Ghost and the darkness are real.
Review: While Hollywood has taken their usual license with this historical occurance, the ghost and the darkness are real. They can be seen at the Chicago Field Museum. I stood looking at them, remembering the movie, and shivers went up and down my spine. The photography, direction, acting, music and total presentation of this movie was excellent. The license wasn't really necessary, as the actual story was excellent on its own.
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Summary: Excellent , True and Great Movie Jan, 20, 2002
Review: I saw this movie first on VHS tape and was very much
impressed with all round performance. Now I brought
DVD. I strongly recommend this movie .Great Photography,
Music,Camera Work and above all Val and Michael perform
their best . I watched this movie many times and every time
it thrills me as it did at first. But I was expecting more
on DVD as Behind the scene and production note etc as One
will obviously need to know these after watching this great
movie . I very strongly recommend this movie as this is
one of te best movie ever I have seen .
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Summary: A Charged-Up, High Octane Thriller!
Review: I've seen this movie for like a dozen times already but I still love this movie! The best of all breeds. It's like a cross between Aliens and The Howling in the mix. Great acting by Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. This DVD is a worthwhile, but it's weak points: widescreen is not anamorphically enhanced and the extras are lacking. But still, this DVD is a good buy. All suspense horror fans should not afford to miss this masterpiece! Two thumbs up!
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Summary: Pushed me right off the edge of my seat!
Review: The first time I saw this movie, I was a little skeptical. Somebody else had rented it, and I'm not really into adventure or suspense. I am more of a comedy person, with some interest in fantasy and sci-fi as well. This movie changed the way I look at movies. I was completely enthralled by this wonderfully put together movie. The acting is suberb. Douglas and Kilmer hit the mark over and over. There is some amazing scenery, and some of the camerawork made me want to rewind it and watch it over and over. The story was excellent. It seemed to keep moving constantly. I would recommend this movie to anyone looking for entertainment. I ended up renting it a couple of times myself, and then eventually purchasing it. Don't pass up a chance to see this movie!
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Summary: Scary, smart and atmospheric.
Review: The Ghost and the Darkness, an unexpected, dark, tantalising thriller is a total success. I didn't read much into this movie before viewing, but I came out really satisfied and although many critics disliked this movie, I thought it was highly entertaining, well executed and very scary. The film succeeds a lot thanks to the direction and visuals; the lions look truly fantastic! Wow! The other reason the movie really made me keep watching was for the atmosphere of the film. The camera angles, backgrounds, lions POV and stuff like that really gives the movie a real feeling. I personally felt like I was in Africa, running from the Ghost and the Darkness, experiencing the true terror of their roar. The film also gets high marks thanks to its very believable performances. Michael Douglas takes a surprising back seat, but it still a strong character in the film and plays out his tough character well. Val Kilmer is the star though. This is one of his best performances, he masters an Irish accent accurately, is a believable loving husband and a likeable bridge builder. The movie is not perfect however. I didn't really appreciate the voice-overs by the African friend and some of the lion attack sequences are cut too short. Despite that, the film is an atmospheric, amazingly true experience that - if you're like me - will leave you shaking and breathless. DVD STUFF: 1/5. Theatrical trailer and viewing options. How about commentaries, bloopers or an insight into the fascinating training of the lions? That would give this disappointing DVD way more credit.
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Summary: Excellent African Adventure
Review: This is based (loosely) on the true life adventure of Col. John Patterson and his book "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo". I say loosely based as they needed to take some liberties witht he core story and develop the characters for a theatrical interpretation. Douglas and Kilmer both deliver outstanding performances of the hunters (and sometimes hunted) of two man-eating lions that terrorized the construction camps at Tsavo. Read the book AFTER seeing the movie.
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Summary: Movie GREAT dvd BAD BAD BAD
Review: the movie is great but the dvd is empty
...THE RATE FOR THE MOVIE IS 4.5
...THE RATE FOR THE DVD IS 2
THE ALL RATE IS 3
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Summary: Building a Bridge
Review: Val Kilmer potrays Lt. Col. John Patterson who is sent down to Africa to build a bridge but while there he is faced with the rising problem of lions that are killing his workers. Wonderful scenery and really good plot had me interested throughout the whole movie.
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Summary: Nice try
Review: I rented this movie and was not too impressed. Then I read _The Man-Eaters of Tsavo_, by J.H.Patterson, and rented the DVD again to compare it to the book. Unfortunately I think the film missed the real story. Patterson was not a struggling weakling who had to be saved by an American hunter; he was an accomplished hunter, he stopped the rebellion himself (and it was really a murder plot, not a riot), and he killed both lions himself. Michael Douglas' character never existed and Douglas hammed it up a bit too much, anyway. The true story was the terror of the nightly raids. Patterson felt helpless as he sat in trees night after night, hoping for a shot at the lions, but then only to hear terrified, agonized screams coming from other parts of camp. Instead of this nightmare, the film focuses on the tension of the hunting expeditions. Val Kilmer mentions 30 dead before we even know the lions have raided that much. The lions themselves were bigger and more frightening in the book. They were over 9 1/2 feet long, and had no manes so they could crawl through the tight, thorny bushes covering the land. They jumped over 9-foot-tall barricades and dragged their victims around by the throats. The Indian and African workers called them "the demons", so it's a wonder why the screenwriter chose the fictitious names for the film's title. The killing of the second man-eater is the most realistic because in truth, it took at least a half-dozen shots to take down these beasts, while they were charging at the men trying to kill them. Also the last human death in the story is realistic, because in the book Patterson tells the story of a man who was killed instantly in his bed when a lion bit through his temples and dragged his body out of the tent. Overall, I wish the screenwriter had focused on the terror of the nightly raids, though it may have been too graphic for audiences. Instead we're left with a mediocre action movie, with a couple of average-sized lions as the antogonists. Nice try.
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