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Actors: Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, Bernard Hill Director: Stephen Hopkins Rating: Features: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 109 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Release Date: December 1, 1998 Theatrical Release Date: October 11, 1996 Studio: Paramount
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A renowned big game hunter joins forces with an engineer to kill the lions which threaten completion of a bridge in 1896 East Africa. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: R Release Date: 29-DEC-2004 Media Type: DVD
Val Kilmer stars as Lt. Col. John Patterson, a 19th-century Irish engineer drafted by Britain's railroad bosses to build a trestle bridge over an African river, thus expanding the empire a tiny bit more. In Tsavo, Patterson is instantly hailed for killing a man-eating lion that had been making life hell for native workers. But morale sinks when a pair of unstoppable big cats devour more men and destroy the project. Along comes an Ahab-like, expatriate American hunter Michael Douglas to help Patterson face the almost preternatural powers of the two killers. The script by William Goldman Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is based on fact, though the film owes more to Spielberg specifically to Jaws than history. There are also suggestive echoes of Kipling and Conrad in the material and characters, and there are hints of emotional complexity and psychological nuance that make one wish this could have been a great film instead of a merely fun one. --Tom Keogh
