Nothing could be further from the truth, however, as Rom’s sole goal is to unlawfully restore his bankrupt country’s wealth and reputation by securing access to the highly lucrative and bountiful reserves of diamonds which lie deep in the jungle under the feet of the Opar tribe which is literally spearheaded by Chief Mbong ( Djimon Hounsou) who has promised to grant Rom access to the mines in return for the man who took the life of his only son – Tarzan. Jackson as the American diplomatic envoy George Washington Williams accept a duplicitous invitation from Captain Léon Rom ( Christoph Waltz) to oversee the good work that both he and King Leopold of Belgium have done to improve trade links and counter slavery in the recently acquired Congo. Throw into the mix the systematic abuse and enslavement of the Congolese people by a corrupt Belgian in pursuit of a girl’s best friend and what you’ve got is a quietly impressive though far from legendary Tarzan fit – well fit, I may add – for the twenty-first century.Īlexander Skarsgård plays the six-packed Tarzan aka John Clayton III aka Lord Greystoke who along with the gag-packed Samuel L. And in place of the skimpy lion cloth is a pair of equally skin-tight but much more fashionable three-quarter-length khaki shorts à la the Gap summer sale. The iconic war cry, now more Johnny Rotten than Johnny Weissmuller, is used sparingly and replaced by whispers of the animal and sweet-nothing variety, the latter to a befrocked Jane who looks as though she’s walked off the set of a Jane Austen costume drama.
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