The Legend of Tarzan
Directed by | David Yates |
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Produced by |
Jerry Weintraub
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Written by |
Adam Cozad
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Based on | Tarzan of The Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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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.