While flipping this racial dynamic is meant to demonstrate the ills of racism, White Man's Burden still centers whiteness.

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| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2005

A wierd and ungainly mixture of obvious racial issues and pseudo-action material.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2004

Doesn't go too far beyond the basic set-up.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 7, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2004

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2003

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 7, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 4, 2003

Manages to approach significant social issues, but falters in its melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2002

Just when Travolta got his groove back..

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 26, 2002

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2002

Una sociedad en la que existe una raza dominante y una raza oprimida, casi como ahora, con la ligera diferencia de que ahora el racismo es al revs.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2001

White Man's Burden spirals into tragedy but never into stirring drama. It stays stuck at the level of noble experiment.

Full Review | May 12, 2001