A Snoozer

Rating: 2/10 (6 October 2008)

I love Rudyard Kipling stories, Huston is usually great, the key cast members are usually great, but something in this mix turned a great short story into an incredible snoozefest.
I saw it at the drive-in a few years after it first came out. We all fell asleep. I tried watching it on TV many years later. We all fell asleep.
There are some good parts, but they're spread so thin over a long and boring timescape that it's just too hard to maintain any interest. It's much like watching the video equivalent of a technical document in which you have only passing interest.
I can't believe this is scoring an 8 out of 10 on average.