Rotten
The picture is too lightweight, too posturing and too self-important to go in an introspective direction.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
The Ghost and the Darkness
Prey For The Hunters
1996 · 1h 49m · R
Adventure, History, Thriller
Directed by
Stephen Hopkins
Overview
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
Director and cast
- Stephen Hopkins Director
- Michael Douglas as Charles Remington
- Val Kilmer as Col. John Henry Patterson
- Tom Wilkinson as Robert Beaumont
- John Kani as Samuel
- Emily Mortimer as Helena Patterson
- Bernard Hill as Dr. David Hawthorne
- Brian McCardie as Angus Starling
- Om Puri as Abdullah
- Henry Cele as Mahina
- Kurt Egelhof Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Ranges in quality from adolescent boys' adventure stories to Heart of Darkness.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
When the movie sticks to fact, the result is a hypnotic spectacle.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
Can't transcend a too-familiar script.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
The camerawork is frenetic and confusing, and the big confrontations are as likely to provoke unintentional laughter as edge-of-the-seat excitement.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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