Disney film opens with machine gunning of elephants. When poachers kill her family, Reese Witherspoon heads off to the nearest town, which is 2000 kilometres across the Kalahari desert, accompanied by a tribal friend (Sarel Bok) and preppy kid (Ethan Embry, from Dutch) - a sort of Walkabout Plus One.
It's not bad, nicely photographed (Juan Ruiz Anchia), music James Horner, though marred by fluffed ending involving a mine full of tusks. From two Laurens van der Post novels, written by Robert Caswell and Jonathan Hensleigh and Sally Robinson. The baddie, Jack Thompson, is not too convincing. Also, the useful dog just disappears at the end - WTF??
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