Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Unlike Jon Favreau's insipid 2016 live-action retread... this live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic about a feral Indian boy reared by wolves teems with flesh, blood, and mud, conveying a true sense of danger and adventure.

The film feels painfully incomplete, from its frequently told story to its weak visuals.

The movie is not without its flaws, but its failures are far more fascinating than whatever made Favreau's safely engineered adaptation a success.

The film is not without spectacle, but it is strangely without soul.

You have to wade through a whole bunch of effects that feel ... abandoned before they were fully baked.

While the sententious script is at best serviceable, dark knots at the heart of the story are well worth grappling with.

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle transcends its origins. [Full review in Spanish]

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle just seems like another juxtaposition of moving images to watch when all other options are exhausted.

The slightly off visuals and scattershot tone makes the experience very hard to get on board with.

Despite its impressive roster of voice performers and the appealing, weightier treatment of Rudyard Kipling's original characters, Serkis' film is a mass of aesthetic contradictions.