White Man's Burden spirals into tragedy but never into stirring drama. It stays stuck at the level of noble experiment.
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05/12/01
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
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Reviews for White Man's Burden
Top CriticThe 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.
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A frustrating film with interesting ideas that never quite come together.
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A tightly constructed drama.
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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.
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Top CriticThere isn't much of a story in White Man's Burden.
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Top CriticSurprisingly lively and entertaining.
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You can see the ideas behind White Man's Burden -- they just don't make it to the screen.
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A 'what-if' racial story that doesn't pack a punch.
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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.
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White Man's Burden was worth doing once, if it only to find out it isn't worth doing again.
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Top Critic
A ham-fisted, under-imagined dialectic on race relations.
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Top CriticNo 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.
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