Karzan, il favoloso uomo della jungla (1972) User Reviews

Beautiful color marred by inept camera work and hopeless script...

[ccmiller1492 · 3/10 · 5 August 2006]

Beautiful color marred by inept camera work and hopeless script...endless irrelevant close-ups and out of frame action sequences follow meaningless long jungle trek sequence in which the members of a "scientific" expedition massacre the local native Africans who seem too stupid to learn that repeated charging with spears doesn't get them anywhere against an inexhaustible supply of guns and ammo. "Karzan" has even less screen time than Miles O'Keefe had in that awful Bo Derek opus. Ettore Manni, veteran of many adventure films here looks bloated and ill. Handsome Browne has nothing to do other than to walk around looking like one of the blond hero puppets out of "Thunderbirds" with his perfectly sculpted haircut, and for some reason his voice sounds as if dubbed by Edmund Purdom. Two of the supporting players look like Ernest Borgnine and Klaus Kinski. There's little else of interest to notice in this film, altogether lamentable.

some lines from one who has seen it probably 20 times

[arildness · 12 October 2003]

The voting seems pretty accurate, so I do not feel like mentioning the film per se, just flourish the site with a few scenes from the film. Specially you need mention Karzans head on charge with a croc in water, swimming towards it just to glide on top of his head(of course avoiding the mouth) to fight to death. Also; there's a lot of animal-life clearly taken from other shoots- put into the film to make it more Africa, and also some places to spice up in-itself meaningless scenes, like the one where the jeep get stuck in the sand. The jeep cannot move, so a lion is cut in to make it more exciting - can the jeep escape? The whole scene crashes with the sight of the lion, laying lazily and even yawning.. You could write books about the zooming( and camerawork in general) in this movie. The tag-line occurs when the team is gonna kill a Black Widow(..): "Quick!Aim for a nerve-centre!"

A warm recommendation for a good movie for all those who love bad movies.