When I bought this item, I really was not aware of what I was dealing with...Except it was a Bruce Beresford film, and also it took place somewhere in Africa, in the beginning of the twentieth century, and starring Pierce Brosnan.
During the first half hour, I wondered what the screenplay drove at? I felt some boredom, but fortunately I found the real quality of this vivid story. I won't tell it again, the other comments were fine about it. It's worth watching. The only point I'd like to say it's that the character of Mister Johnson reminds me somewhere TOM HORN's one, starring Steve mac Queen, a man torn between two entities - MacQueen, the landowners who hired him to get rid of the settlers at all costs and the law; and Mister Johnson's actor who hesitates between his own people and the British "masters" he admired so much, these people he wanted so much to be like them, so much he felt himself British inside of him. Two characters who finish crushed at the end, and nearly in the same way. Just because of their convictions and engagement.
I don't regret to have watched this film. No folks.
During the first half hour, I wondered what the screenplay drove at? I felt some boredom, but fortunately I found the real quality of this vivid story. I won't tell it again, the other comments were fine about it. It's worth watching. The only point I'd like to say it's that the character of Mister Johnson reminds me somewhere TOM HORN's one, starring Steve mac Queen, a man torn between two entities - MacQueen, the landowners who hired him to get rid of the settlers at all costs and the law; and Mister Johnson's actor who hesitates between his own people and the British "masters" he admired so much, these people he wanted so much to be like them, so much he felt himself British inside of him. Two characters who finish crushed at the end, and nearly in the same way. Just because of their convictions and engagement.
I don't regret to have watched this film. No folks.