obviously, there s some superb visual effects involved here, but it feels very convincing. it is a bit of a nail biter, i would say. probably not as much action as i was expecting. there s a lot of sort of pauses while they build the characters and talk to each other. and there s the whole storyline about the family having lots of tension. but i think in the action scenes it is quite exciting. one of the issues for me here is that there s no real winners in this story. it s not one of those things with an obvious baddie, i mean, because it s a bit of a lose lose situation. whoever wins in this scenario because you feel very sorry for the lion whose pride has been killed. so it s quite a sad story in a way. so it s not a popcorn thriller in the old fashioned sense, but idris elba was very good and he plays a kind of everyman hero. this isn t the kind of heroic kind of story about a man who s going to save his family by turning into a total action hero. he s he looks visibly sc
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