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Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

asinyne This movie is something of a throwback to the old jungle adventure films of the forties and fifties. Forget the computer effects, besides they usually suck. The movie moved at a slower, more realistic pace. The acting was pretty good and the leading lady was very sexy in a unique way. I also enjoyed the scenery. There was something about this movie that kept me glued to the screen. I really enjoyed it. It was a lot more realistic and probably more like what an African adventure was really like back in the day. I know kids won't like it because there is no one in tights and a cape and not enough massive explosions and car wrecks. I guess thats what I did like about it. For someone with a bit of a pulp fiction fetish, its all good I guess and definitely interesting on many levels. And its not some a goofy Indiana Jones ripoff. No huge bowling balls come running out of the background and its not stupid or idiotic like the Indy movies.

patlightfoot I was looking forward to it. But - found it hard, very hard, to take it seriously, I thought it might be a black comedy or skit on that classic novel. Acting? Dismal, non existent script & continuity? If they were Zulus, they didn't act or appear to be real. The scenery was great but came from all parts of S.A. Why would Lady Anna, come dressed for a party, entering not only a shady bush drinking place, but in the S.A. bush. And Allan Q, behaved like a dumb, recovering alcoholic with little facial expressions or body language throughout. Just as well I got it for nothing from the local library. If this was an adaptation of the classic novel, the script writer should be buried up to his/her neck in an ant-hill. The final scene, them bowing and smiling. What was that all about, or maybe I fast forwarded the sequence when it could have been answered.

ungy357 "King Solomon's Mines" is one of the great adventure novels of all time, but it seems so difficult to successfully adapt to the screen, for no reasons that I cannot fathom. This may be the weakest version yet, paling even to the pathetic 1985 Richard Chamberlain/Sharon Stone debacle. While the director brags about using the same African locations as the classic Steweart Granger/Deborah Kerr version, it's clear that this was a misuse of the $50,000 budget. The acting and overall production values are so weak, that it's clear all of the money has gone into travel costs. A better, more spectacular movie could have been made in the deserts of the American southwest and jungles of Hawai, and none would have known the difference.Of the no name cast, only the actor playing Allan Quatermain acquits himself reasonably well. His performance is perfectly adequate, and he has screen presence. The rest of the cast is abysmal, and the changes from Haggard's book don't even serve to make the story more contemporary or exciting. This is the kind of film that gives the straight to DVD industry the reputation it has, and it's likely only the opportunity to cash in on "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (hence the title) , which opened around the same time.Skip this one, and see either the Granger version, or the made-for-TV Patrick Swayze version. Or even "Police Academy 6: City Under Siege". All do a better job of capturing Haggard's book, and are just more fun.

mithril013-1 They couldn't have made a worse movie if they had tried. I can't believe I actually watched it through to the end. Perhaps in the vain hope that it might have livened up. Not a hope. The acting was wooden. the plot was wooden the dialog was wooden in fact everything was wooden (except for the wildlife and even that was spliced in)and as for the directing, well a child of 3 could have done better. Can someone please explain how anyone can go off on safari in the African Bush without a trace of equipment save for an obviously well stocked handbag, being as her ladyships makeup remained almost perfect throughout, and a revolver. When Quartermain announced "we'll make camp here for the night" one had to wonder what with? Total and Utter Rubbish.