King of Beasts

An average documentary trying to justify a gun nuts pathetic hobby. Not even close to a convincing argument. Could have stopped watching thirty minutes in. Not sure why I didn't.

As a documentary, I find this film outstanding .

It's not judging yet observing closely, it is raw, yet well filmed and edited to create an intimate protrayal of the subjects .

As for the topic of trophy hunting in general, and what's going on in Africa in particular, I'm not a fan to say the least .

But even though the great white hunter isn't the brightest candle on the cake, and the pretenious Alpha act of an overweight middle aged American gets old quickly, I couldn't even dislike him . That's how balanced this documentary is .

It's not a scientific approach to the issue , you'd have to look elsewhere for that ; it rather follows and watches closely to engross the viewer and allow him to come to his own conclusions .

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything" A. Einstein.

I don't know either to give this 1 or 10, this "human" should be killed as soon as possible and I hope he has a slow and painful death similar to the animals he kills.

I think you main hunter guy was fairly easy to work out - a bit Trumpy, and convinced he was the good guy who was somehow doing Africa a favour!

What I thought was most interesting was trying to work out what the locals 'actually' thought of the westerners. I always felt there was a bit on a glint in the eye as if to say 'suckers'! Maybe I'm wrong.

All in all - highly recommended.