Review of White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) by Jens T — 29 Oct 2011

Clint Eastwood's White Hunter Black Heart is the story set in the fifties, about the american director John Wilson (Eastwood) who is of to Congo to film his newest film, the producers are worried that we will do some thing stupid, like he regularly does, because of his hate against the Hollywood studious.

Real location sets was still very unusual in Hollywood. But Wilson has other things in mind then just making a picture, he also wants to shoot an elephant, some thing his actually more obsessed with than making the movie.

The main character John Wilson is actually based on director John Huston and his making of the African Queen. After my opinion the movie itself is more or less what you can expect from an Eastwood flick, the rough, stubborn and honest guy beating up the bad guys and standing up for the weakest.

The problem is that it's nothing else to see or hear than Eastwood himself. He certainly have more lines than his five last movie combined. But still I gonna give this film a thumbs up, because it's an all right average Eastwood film, and he did the best he can.