You can tell that the makers of this film are pretty steamed up about the issue of ivory poaching and the murder of African elephants for their tusks. The trouble is that they hammer home their point like a party political message with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer on a nut - to the detriment of the storyline. There's no doubt that the film's heart is in the right place, it's just that the script is such a letdown. On the acting side, John Lithgow and James Earl Jones deliver the goods as, respectively, a cynical author on the trail of ivory poachers who also murder any humans who get in their way and a Nairobi police inspector. Isabella Rossellini adds more than a touch of glamour as a dedicated research scientist who has devoted her life to saving the elephants from extinction.


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