Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou

This is one of those movies after which you’re sorry they wrapped it up in just ~100 minutes. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to look at it in 3D, I’m sure it would be a much bigger experience.

What made me know in the first 15 minutes that the movie was going to be great?

Three quick opening scenes reveal a plot set in the 19th century, C.Waltz as the main villain, S.Jackson in his sarcastic style, and the lovely M.Robbie as Jane, excited to visit the Congo again. That was enough for me.

And Tarzan? With his 6 feet and probably an extra musculature gained before movie, Skarsgard was a great choice for the role. In this modern version, we see him at first as John Clayton III – the noble British Lord, which doesn’t mean that details of his past and jungle life won’t be revealed as flashbacks.

A plot set at a time when Belgian King Leopold is planning to conquer Tarzan’s comrades in the Congo. To confirm and prevent it, Tarzan and his Jane travel back to the place where they grew up, not knowing that ambush is waiting for him.

As soon as arrived, he is greeted (read: cuddle) with a group of lions with whom he grew up, while in the village everyone greets them by shouting ‘welcome home’.

But the mercenaries soon broke into that ‘home’ to find and abduct Tarzan, and hand him over as agreed to the leader of the local tribe for blood feuds. However, they manage to abduct only Jane, who will soon explain to the kidnappers that ‘even an ordinary man can do the impossible for the sake of his beloved, and that her husband is no ordinary man’.

As they say, ‘they woke up the animal in him’, so the hunt begins. The action full of great jungle scenes, very good effects, as well as a great cast, are the reason not to miss this modern screening, which closely follows the story from the book.