Actors are great, scenery is great, music is good enough, costumes look good at least for someone not knowing exactly what costumes of the times are supposed to look like.
#EDGE OF THE WORLD MOVIE#
So I'd say the movie didn't sink into modern politics which is always surprising and refreshing. It doesn't show the indigenous people in a particular good or bad light either. It doesn't depict the Muslims as good or evil either. The movie doesn't depict the British Empire as all evil or all good. I don't have any biases on the subjects and to me it seemed pretty fair. It's not a movie for peoples that need a "safe space". So of course many people will rage about the movie not being in line with their views or beliefs on the subjects. This movie touches subjects like colonialism, imperialism and Islam. 6/10.ĭon't believe the low ratings and reviews. This is not a bad film, and can make for enjoyable watching by anyone who likes historical adventures, but it does not really grab your attention. His interpretation of the role struck me as too introspective and angst-ridden, not the sort of person one could ever imagine seizing a kingdom for himself. The part of Brooke, however, really demands a swashbuckling hero like Flynn or (given that we don't really do swashbuckling in the twenty-first century) at least someone more dynamic than Jonathan Rhys Meyers. My objections are not political those who criticise the film for its alleged "white saviour narrative" overlook the fact that it is based upon historical fact and that Brooke really did rise to power in the way shown here. Brooke's adventures contain enough material for a very good film, but this is not really it. Brooke's former fiancée Elizabeth Crookshank, whom he meets again in Borneo, appears to be an invented character. In fact, at the time of the events portrayed here Charles would still have been a schoolboy aged eleven or twelve he did not travel to Borneo until ten years later. The film makes some changes to Brooke's story for example, his nephew and ultimate successor as Rajah, Charles, accompanies him on his journeys and is portrayed as a junior naval officer and a young man in his twenties. In the event, however, it was never made. This was the first film to be made of his life, although one, provisionally entitled "The White Rajah" and intended to star Errol Flynn, was projected in the 1930s. Brooke's rule was notable for his campaigns against slavery and piracy, and he and his successors ruled Sarawak for a century until it became a British Colony in the aftermath of World War II. (Brooke's adventures may have inspired Rudyard Kipling's story "The Man Who Would Be King"). This "Edge of the World" is an adventure drama about the British soldier and adventurer James Brooke (1803-1868) who helped the Sultan of Brunei put down a local rebellion and was rewarded by being made Rajah of Sarawak. This film is not a remake of Michael Powell's 1937 masterpiece about life on a Scottish island.
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