Embarrassing and unbelievable

This film must have one of the most ridiculous and repellant beginnings ever. A self righteous, bombastic prig drags a little black kid before a group of wealthy whites with the intention of shaming them and, as I saw it, demonstrating what a helluva guy he is. When he made the kid imitate a monkey you wondered just how low he could sink.

In the African footage the people had legs like matchsticks and, I guess, must have been genuinely starving. If so, we the viewers were turned into voyeurs. However, from the comfort of our living rooms we can thrill to the suffering of the starving and feel a twinge of smugness because we are sorry for them.

Boring hero and dreary heroine.