With everything that’s wrong with The Legend Of Tarzan, the movie on a whole still works because it all looks so polished and slick. The visuals of the African landscapes are breathtaking, especially in IMAX 3D. The CGI animals though sometimes inconsistent, still make for a marvellous sight. The visual wizardry at work in this film more than makes up for it’s dimwit storytelling. So if you like the sight of a larger-than-life action adventure, Tarzan is just the man for you.

The character is simply one step ahead of being a stereotypical mustache-twirling villain. Skarsgard, whose face is often in the shadows doesn’t have many lines in the film and his extreme gym bod does most of the acting. Robbie is severely miscast as Jane – she looks like a very modern woman placed in a period film.
It looks like Warner and Disney are making the same kind of blockbuster movies and the latter is consistently making the better ones.

The movie takes you to the core of the jungle and gives you the taste of the wild. However, you may feel that the visual effects and the action sequences could have been better, as they don’t give you that adrenaline rush you would expect while watching an adventurous movie. Yates has also neatly timed Tarzan’s and Jane’s flashbacks that give you a glimpse of the original story, which creates the foundation of this story.

More than the adventure, the love story works like a charm, with Skarsgård and Robbie—who is just lovely as the brave, confident Jane—establishing a warm rapport.

Some warm moments amid vast uninspired stretches…

As the plot slowly but surely meanders out of control in the service of delivering a big-bang finish, it’s the sequences in the jungle and the incredibly real computer-generated animals that endure over the greedy and confused humans.