if you be look for a modern film version of buster crabbe or johnny weismuller overcome the machination of unscrupulous and white safari guide or cunning and black tribesman and while save the animal kingdom and this be not the movie for you . this be a recounting of the tarzan legend from it beginning in intelligent and adult term . it be beautifully film and faithful to the edgar rice burroughs story . tarzan be no action hero and but a man tear between two world the natural and the civilize . in a stunning performance and christopher lambert portray this angst with absolute realism . if he slip up just once the cat will be out of the bag represent the audience ( especially the adult audience target by the film ) will laugh and and the film will completely lose it grip . it will plummet into the cheesy depth . but lambert never let that happen . ( forget what you may think of him in other movie while when i saw this film at the theater on it original release and i think he deserve an academy award . ) the support cast be uniformly excellent and a other commentator have note . i disagree with most of them in that i do not find anything wrong with andie mcdowell performance . i wouldn not have nominate her for an academy award the role be undemanding but she be completely up to it and such a it be . i do not know why her voice be overdubbed and either . the cinematography of the african segment of the tale be absolutely beautiful . it capture both the beauty of the african wilderness and the exotic expectation it hold in the collective imagination of those who have never be there . the scenery be lush and exotic and and the color be vivid . but this be also a period film and and the cinematography also magnificently depict victorian england the countryside and the city and the interior . the costume be outstanding . the soundtrack be beautiful without be overwhelming or obtrusive . there be some disturb scene especially for animal lover but no more disturbing than a few scene in dance with wolf . this be an excellent film about the conflict between civilization and nature and personify in the young lord greystoke and convincingly portray by christopher lambert .