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06/24/06
White Man's Burden (1995)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:8
Rotten:23
Average Rating:4.5/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In this acclaimed story of role reversal, John Travolta plays a blue collar man from the white minority who fights against the odds and the system when he loses his job, taking on the owner of his... [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Tom Bower
Director: Desmond Nakano
Reviews for White Man's Burden
Top CriticSurprisingly lively and entertaining.
01/01/00
There isn't much of a story in White Man's Burden.
01/01/00
You can see the ideas behind White Man's Burden -- they just don't make it to the screen.
01/01/00
Doesn't go too far beyond the basic set-up.
08/07/04
No one looking for an action movie is going to choose this one. Equally obviously, no one interested in a film about racial stereotyping in America wants to sit through chase scenes.
01/01/00
Top CriticA frustrating film with interesting ideas that never quite come together.
01/01/00
Were it not for John Travolta's big-hearted portrayal of an unemployed white factory worker driven to commit a desperate act, the movie would be an emotionally frozen exercise in cautious high-mindedness.
05/20/03
Top CriticA ham-fisted, under-imagined dialectic on race relations.
01/01/00
White Man's Burden was worth doing once, if it only to find out it isn't worth doing again.
01/01/00
A tightly constructed drama.
01/01/00
Una sociedad en la que existe una raza dominante y una raza oprimida, casi como ahora, con la ligera diferencia de que ahora el racismo es al revés.
08/31/01
So simple, so broad are White Man's Burden's paint strokes ... that no real lesson outside of the obviously mundane can be elicited, and that's a real shame.
01/01/00
The flaws in this film are many. The dialogue verges on silly when parodying cliches that white people use to denigrate blacks. And most of the acting is just inadequate.
01/01/00
It's undeniably fascinating to watch this hypothetical experiment for a while. But White Man's Burden starts to feel like an only-passable Twilight Zone episode stretched into a full-length movie.
01/01/00
White Man's Burden spirals into tragedy but never into stirring drama. It stays stuck at the level of noble experiment.
05/12/01
A 'what-if' racial story that doesn't pack a punch.
01/01/00
A look at color relations that's likely to be more compelling for nonurban audiences than the latest take on drug dealing and gang banging in the 'hood.
06/05/02
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