Well, this film is beautifully photographed. There are a couple of other Amazon rain forest films that come to mind, "Medicine Man" and "At Play in the Fields of the Lord". Both are better. This one isn't terrible, it is just so simplistic as to become preachy. It also has mile-wide plot holes. The Indian tribe adopted the main character's son. I don't know much about Amazon tribes, but in North America, in frontier times, the tribes there would occasionally adopt captives. Of course, at other times, they would torture them to death, whether man, woman, or child. Oddly, the tribe's women were all shapely and pretty. Didn't see any that were old, fat, or ugly. I appreciate the aesthetics of this, but the realism takes a hit. Powers Boothe was singularly in need of a charisma transplant, or the movie in general needed some star power. It is okay, but that's all.
Review of The Emerald Forest
