| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

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

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

A ham-fisted, under-imagined dialectic on race relations.

| Jan 1, 2000

White Man's Burden was worth doing once, if it only to find out it isn't worth doing again.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

No one looking for an action movie is going to choose this one. Equally obviously, no one interested in a film about racial stereotyping in America wants to sit through chase scenes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

So simple, so broad are White Man's Burden's paint strokes ... that no real lesson outside of the obviously mundane can be elicited, and that's a real shame.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Watching this movie is like watching Godfrey Cambridge's racial switcheroo in 1970's Watermelon Man -- without the laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 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.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: C- | Dec 1, 1995