![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of truly focusing on the enslavement and genocide practiced toward African people, the film, in typical white male-dominated Hollywood style, produces a nonsensical plot that only seems to care about the white people at the boringly unromantic center. Too bad the film never succeeds at portraying that message. In increasingly weary times of continued violence, hate and oppression toward Black people abroad and in the United States, the decision to make a big budget franchise film that looks at the systemic injustice that helped created the divides within geopolitics is an intriguing one. To start with the positive (yes, a singular positive), the film tries to implement a message of how African colonization in the 1800s played an integral role in destroying the people, the animals and the natural beauty of the continent. Jackson and Christoph Waltz, a talented director in David Yates (the last three excellent “Harry Potter” films along with the upcoming “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) and $180 million to buy anything the crew and cast needed to assure this film’s success, “Tarzan” fails on almost every level. Despite a noteworthy cast including Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. “The Legend of Tarzan” is one of the most misguided blockbuster fi lms released by a major studio this year and, quite frankly, in recent memory. ![]()
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