Zaki's Review: The Legend of Tarzan

It's been a rough couple of years for Edgar Rice Burroughs.

First the late pulp author's "John Carter of Mars" series got a belated big screen adaptation from Disney in 2012 that flopped so spectacularly (unfairly, I'd argue) that the phrase "another John Carter" has practically become the accepted vernacular for any movie where a massive budget coupled with audience apathy has entirely predictable, disastrous results at the box office. In that sense (and somewhat ironically), Warner Bros.' The Legend of Tarzan, the newest screen incarnation of Burroughs most well-known creation, is betraying all the telltale signs of being, yep, another John Carter.

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