White Man's Burden
Set in alternative US in which African-Americans hold the bulk of the country's wealth and power while whites are the downtrodden underclass, the movie revolves around Louis Pinnock, a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. But when he loses his job, Pinnock snaps and decides to fight back the only way he knows how.
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May 24, 2003
The racial message is crystal clear and the concept of turning the tables on oppression is rather interesting. Unfortunately, the movie is never focused or convincingly solid to realize the cynicism in its meandering material. At best, "Burden" is merely
May 12, 2001
White Man's Burden spirals into tragedy but never into stirring drama. It stays stuck at the level of noble experiment.
January 01, 2000
It's undeniably fascinating to watch this hypothetical experiment for a while. But White Man's Burden starts to feel like an only-passable Twilight Zone episode stretched into a full-length movie.
December 24, 2002
Manages to approach significant social issues, but falters in its melodrama.
April 03, 2005
A wierd and ungainly mixture of obvious racial issues and pseudo-action material.
May 20, 2003
Were it not for John Travolta's big-hearted portrayal of an unemployed white factory worker driven to commit a desperate act, the movie would be an emotionally frozen exercise in cautious high-mindedness.
January 01, 2000
White Man's Burden was worth doing once, if it only to find out it isn't worth doing again.
August 07, 2004
Doesn't go too far beyond the basic set-up.
June 05, 2002
A look at color relations that's likely to be more compelling for nonurban audiences than the latest take on drug dealing and gang banging in the 'hood.
January 01, 2000
A ham-fisted, under-imagined dialectic on race relations.
September 17, 2002
Just when Travolta got his groove back..
January 01, 2000
Watching this movie is like watching Godfrey Cambridge's racial switcheroo in 1970's Watermelon Man -- without the laughs.
