Acting was so unbelievably bad...

Rating: 1/10 (8 May 2018)

First, the acting was so bad. Angela Basset and Forrest Whitaker are some of the worst actors working in Hollywood. They constantly talk with such dramatic poise and make facial flourishes that no normal person would ever do, and neither of them behave like this in real life, but every movie they do, they put on this theatrical performance. Just watch closely and see it. it is painfully bad.
Then if you can accept the bad acting you have to accept the ludicrous premise, which is basically the primitive tribe is this sophisticated people. it would have been more interesting if it wasn't this stereotypical African primitive tribe, but instead a real sophisticated group of people.
Just typical badly written Hollywood film. filled with one cliche after another. you rarely find a film that dares to take a different approach and surprise us with a unique way of telling a story.
I for one, won't pretend that a king would have women as security guards. nor will I pretend that this type of place remotely ever existed, and that's okay.