I
liked The Ghost and the Darkness. I thought it had a good tension to it. It was especially effective in the scenes when the lions were present but you didn't see them, such as when the shooters were inside the hospital and the lions were roaming around outside, and when you could see (or think you see) something moving in the tall grass just outside the workers compound.
Sometimes when they showed a lion jumping someone the apparatus used to simulate a lion was extraordinarily cheesy, like the tv show where someone is holding a cardboard "shark" on a stick.
Other things annoying were some of the total screwups done attempting to kill or trap a lion, but unfortunately most of those were from actual events, so it limits my whining. For example, the shooting platform on a pole and the three guys who couldn't shoot a lion trapped in a train car (or some such). You just want to scream in frustration from the incompetence.
Reminds me of some viewer comments on IMDB for the sci-fi movie
Sunshine, where earthlings send a space ship in close proximity to the sun and then send a bomb
inside the sun to reenergize it. I guess they landed at night !
The funny part was one of the IMDB viewers stated that he heard the movie was based on real events.
