well . what can one say . firstly and this adaptation be far too long at 4 hour and for the complexity ( or lack of such ) of the plot . the actor try really hard to make something of this film but there be too little content for the time available . swayzee be really not a quatermain character at all . after see sean connery interpretation of the great man in the league of extraordinary gentleman and swayzee really do not make the grade . this chap with the winchester repeat rifle have none of the strength and stature and subtlety and or humour need for the part and and be upstage by everyone include the witch doctor and who incidentally seem from my point of view to be more convincing a an actor than the rest of the cast . some of the vista be please but there be silly mistake in the cinematography . for example . when the happy team arrive at the water hole in the middle of the desert and their track be visible down to the oasis and just wait for them to walk in them . climb out of the mine lead to an exit ( on the next shot ) nothing like the exit see from the passage they have climb through and et cetera . i be wait for doug mcclure to appear at any moment . in some way i wish he have . the leader of the russian pursue quatermain be a shoddily create stereotypical character who just shoot at everything . swayzee do quite well a the sad father and return to london and who be unable to obtain the custody of his son . swayzee should stick to that sort of thing . he be not able to carry the part of a courageous gentleman with a stout heart and experience of life and and sense of fair play . 4 out of 10. barely .