In the alternative United States, African Americans own most of the country's wealth. On the other hand, the whites are the crumbling lower class who face a difficult path in coexistence with their lives. The film is about Louis Pinnock, a white chocolate factory worker, a loving husband and a father of two. One day, when he loses his job, Pinnock surrenders and decides to fight again.
A wierd and ungainly mixture of obvious racial issues and pseudo-action material.
Rolling Stone
May 12, 2001
White Man's Burden spirals into tragedy but never into stirring drama. It stays stuck at the level of noble experiment.
Arizona Daily Star
December 24, 2002
Manages to approach significant social issues, but falters in its melodrama.
Washington Post
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.
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
USA Today
January 01, 2000
Watching this movie is like watching Godfrey Cambridge's racial switcheroo in 1970's Watermelon Man -- without the laughs.
Washington Post
January 01, 2000
A ham-fisted, under-imagined dialectic on race relations.
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.
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.
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IMDb: 7
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