The Ghost and the Darkness

Upon seeing this playing yesterday on one of my movie channels, I asked my wifey if she liked it. She had never seen or heard of it. After explaining it to her, it made me wanna watch, and even though I didn't watch it yet I cannot stop thinking about it. It is a brilliant film with a great story and even better actors. What I really like about it and hate about it is the fact that it is a true story. I like it because it is cool to watch films that actually happened in history. I hate it because a lot of people died. Set in 1898, British Army engineer Lt. Col. John Paterson (Val Kilmer) is put in East Africa to build a bridge. He is under a strict timeline, but he is awesome at what he does. He is not worried at all. That will quickly change. He has unlimited resources and an unlimited supply of Indian and African employees, but one night a lion kills a worker and the other workers are now afraid. They have no idea how afraid they should be. John heads right out and kills the lion responsible which gives the villagers peace of mind, and also gives them faith in the good bridge builder. Unfortunately for him and his task at hand villagers start disappearing one by one. The numbers of death are rising so fast no one thinks of it as lion attacks. Well, they were right. Not lion attacks, but lions attacks, that's right lions - PLURAL. The lions are named by the villagers as "Ghost" and "Darkness". These lions apparently didn't get the lion manual about the fact that they don't hunt and kill and eat humans that don't threaten them. This is where the astoundingly brilliant big game hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas) enters the equation. He is sent in by the people that need the bridge finished on time. He and John must work together to stop these killings, and after several failed plans they finally get one right, but they miss their chance. By now the villagers are all on the exodus from the land of fear of being next. It is an intense film, where humans get hunted, try and outsmart these furry felines, and finish that damn bridge. Supposedly over 130 people were killed by Ghost and Darkness in a 9 month period. That's insane. I can see why they wanted to leave. The heroism of the Brit and the American is phenomenal and for that...

NBM rates The Ghost and the Darkness - Phenomenal

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