3 Ups & 7 Downs From The Legend Of Tarzan

3. It Has A Fatal Identity Crisis

This is a film that honestly doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. As mentioned, it's overloaded with flashbacks to Tarzan's birth and youth, and frequently leans his stature as a legend, but little of his graduation to mythic hero is actually shown (despite that sounding much more interesting than the generic story that forms the spine of the movie).

It's a film trying to do too much of everything and succeeding at almost none of it: at times it feels like a prequel and at others a sequel to a film that doesn't actually exist. Had the potential franchise taken its time with a more traditional origin story as its first film rather than hastily forcing it through, then perhaps audiences might've come out of this anticipating a sequel rather than dreading the prospect.