Beautiful, emotional, and a great live action adaptation.

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2019)

The Lion King (5 out of 5 stars).
The Lion King is impressive. Probably the next ground breaking with the filmmaker's technology in bringing the animated film to life. With life like settings, the visual effects on the animals and the background. It was amazing and believable. The Disney original film was one of my favorites as a child. Watching this live action brings back the nostalgia feeling. From the opening moment of the circle of life song with the sunrise showing in the landscapes of Africa. Seeing every animal showing up to the Pride rock with Simba being carried over. The film delivers all around. The visual effects are impressive. The story is beautiful, emotional, and adventurous. It is a perfect adaptation of the original. Maybe more new scenery's added the extra screen time. The voice talent was good. Seth Rogen was more noticeable as Pumba which was great. The film does have some exciting action sequences that makes you feel like you are with the characters in action.
The plot follows Simba who is a prince and flees away when his uncle Scar takes over the kingdom. From there, he meets Pumba and Timon. Until, he is a lion and Nala tries to get him back to face against Scar and his Hyenas. Every one knows the story if they seen the original Disney film. It is very much the same. It is great seeing it brought to live action. There are a few emotional powerful moments in the film that does get to you. Mufasa and Simba's bonding moments as father and son will bring some tears again. I did feel like Jon Favreau direction did added some extra new scenes to help with the transition with the story. The film does keep true to the musical sequences. Which were all great and had a fun impressive musical scene with the characters. There is a new sequence with a Beyonce song Spirit thrown in the movie with the characters travelling back to their homeland.
Jon Favreau direction is fantastic. He did great handling The Jungle Book. He did this film just as well. He delivered the emotional connections with the story and characters. The film had some exciting action scenes. Simba and Nala were great. Mufasa was great. The rest of the characters were all fun as well. The music score by Hans Zimmer is beautiful and inspirational. It does deliver nostalgia and emotional connection.
Overall, The Lion King is one of the best Disney's live action film. I loved the original. This live action remake may be a little dark and has less humor than the original. The story is great. The direction, music score, voice talent, the action sequences, visual effects and musical scenes are all impressive. That will deliver with excitement and maybe some tears.