this world war ii film and set in borneo and try so hard to work on so many level and it be a shame it fail on all of them . nick nolte be an escaping american who witness the execution of his comrade by the japanese . he wander deep into the jungle of borneo and lose . cue nigel havers and who find nolte adopt tribe . nolte and now look like robert plant and have become his tribe new king . he defeat a staunch warrior in a bloody battle and and have a tell tattoo on his chest ( a dragon ) . now before you go out and get a painful tattoo and a one way ticket to borneo and thing be not go well in nolteland . havers want the tribe help in fight the japanese and who be invade the island . he teach the native how to use machine gun and and a whole lot o shoot begin . a the tribe become more successful and they run up against a new squadron of japanese who be not like the others . this squad cannibalize the village they conquer in order to keep their strength up ( talk about your sushi ) and and they move through the jungle even quick than the tribe . since we know the outcome of the war and we know eventually the tribe triumph and but with heavy casualty . here come the spoiler represent havers be injured and return to civilization . he give the location of the kingdom and nolte be capture . havers then go through the trouble of release nolte and and the end credit roll . milius direction be certainly adequate and but the screenplay here be rather vague in it motivation . it present story idea and then abandon them in order to get to the next story idea . nolte be awful a the soldier turn king and desperately try to channel the spirit of marlon brando colonel kurtz . he talk about freedom and and the beauty of the jungle and and the richness of his people and and you will not believe for one second the word he utter . he be often unintentionally funny and especially his initial bug out in the jungle and and he spend the rest of the film sound like a hippie . nigel havers spend the movie look at nolte like he be raquel welch . the vague homosexual undercurrent between the two go beyond friendship and not quite to sex and and settle into an unspoken relationship that must have have the native talk . havers often stand around and have an internal conflict and repulse at the tribe headhunting and but bask in nolte attention . his fellow straight lace british serviceman go native fast than the bounty land party in tahiti and but all i saw concern borneo be that it be very humid and have lot of green . the climactic betrayal and where havers give away nolte location and be completely devoid of any reason . there be not one think give a to why havers do this and except to keep the film go . i be angry and when by chance and havers and nolte end up on the same ship go to the philippine and the ship happen to run aground and and havers run to the hold to free the freshly shorn nolte . no goodbye kiss and but havers say farewell to the king and explain the title . if you be fight a war and and an enemy squadron be eat your ally and would that not freak you out . this elite japanese squad be not show enough and although their eating habit be so horrific i would become a conscientious objector right away . the same type of ghostly enemy be handle much well in the 13th warrior . other type of interest idea be drop . what about the fact that then modern technology bring about the death of so many backward people . why do king nolte let the brit use his subject without too much hesitation . why can not hollywood find a decent actor to play general douglas macarthur . in the end and farewell to the king be a letdown and not anchor by a strong lead and and try to be too many thing without thinking and explore it option . i can not recommend this one . this film be rat ( pg13 ) for strong physical violence and strong gun violence and some gore and some profanity and some sexual reference and and adult situation .