The Legend of Tarzan

The Legend of Tarzan

Directed by	David Yates
Produced by	Jerry Weintraub David Barron Alan Riche Tony Ludwig
Written by	Adam Cozad Craig Brewer
Based on	Tarzan of The Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Starring	Alexander Skarsgård Samuel L. Jackson Margot Robbie Djimon Hounsou Jim Broadbent Christoph Waltz
Release date	June 27, 2016(Dolby Theatre) July 1, 2016 (United States)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$180 million
Box office	$356.7 million

It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.

The jungle consumes everything. It preys on the old, the sick, the wounded. It preys on the weak, but never the strong.

“The Legend of Tarzan” is a pretty good action-adventure movie. Its narrative is refreshingly free of bloat, folding the Tarzan origin story into a series of relatively pain-free flashbacks that actually dovetail credibly into its contemporary scenario.