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Release Date: Oct 11, 1996; Rated: R; Length: 109 minutes; Genre: Action/Adventure; With: Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas are brave chaps in turn-of-the-century Africa — one a bridge- building Englishman, the other a renegade American wild game hunter — who team up to do battle with a pair of marauding, murdering lions. The ripping yarn (a kind of Jaws in the jungle) The Ghost and the Darkness is based on a true story. And the dramatic conflict should be epic. But the combination of William Goldman's wildly declamatory script and the stars' showy enchantment with their own derring-do undoes this awfully big adventure. C


Posted Oct 25, 1996
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