Word: melodrama
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RHINO! African melodrama as it should be done-with scenic splendor and crackling humor-tied to a timely story about a hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos...
RHINO! In brightest Africa, the hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos triggers a timely, scenic, instructive, and highly entertaining melodrama...
...Visit is the kind of movie that leaves viewers wishing they had seen the play instead. On the screen, it is little more than a melodrama. On Broadway, as an unforgettable vehicle for the Lunts in 1958, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's drama drilled annihilating satire into a spare, pitiless tale of vengeance and greed...
Flabby characterization doesn't help, but the film's compelling fault is its total lack of tension. Underneath a sometimes-bizarre exterior beats a heart of purest melodrama: will Reason and Humanity save Miller from the whirling ripsaw? The answer is really never in doubt, and melodrama without suspense is like borsht without beets...
RHINO! An African hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos triggers a timely, scenic, instructive and highly entertaining melodrama...