This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Beautiful, moving film.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I first saw Hatari as a 7 year old when my Mum took me to the Paramount Cinema on George Street Sydney to see it and I reckon I knew even then that there was something special about it. In subsequent viewings, I was able to describe what it was. It was the naturalness of the story and the actors. Scripting didn't seem required as the chemistry between the principles did the trick. See this movie. Own a copy as I do and treasure it as a time capsule to an era when Hollywood could allow the larger than life stars like Wayne, the NATURAL landscapes and the absence of foul lingo to entertain.

HATARI! is something a little different for John Wayne fans expecting a typical cowboy-filled western adventure. This one's set in east Africa where Wayne and his team of men go around hunting and capturing wild animals to sell to zoos around the world. Their business is complicated by the arrival of a French girl who stirs up feelings amongst the group. It's a film that's grossly overlong but has some great and realistic action scenes in it, scenes in which the actors really did perform the dangerous captures you see them attempting. The May to December romance stuff is cringe-worthy, but the animals are tame and lovable, particularly those baby elephants at the climax.

. . . because most of the African animals shown in this flick have been slaughtered to extinction by ISIS terrorists since HATARI! was shot in the 1900s, just like the JURASSIC WORLD dinosaurs. And it's small wonder that these critters even made it to the 1970s, as you watch HATARI!'s "MAD MAX"-like convoys of leaded gasoline guzzling jeeps running amok all over the countryside, crashing into this species and that. Obviously, most of the animals being kidnapped by John Wayne's pirate outfit are destined for the "bush meat" market. Wayne's procurer-in-chief character--"Sean Mercer"--all but admits this, when he notes that the 500 Vervet Monkeys his crew of White Europeans has just rounded up will yield only $6,000 in aggregate--the price of meat, NOT zoo exhibits! Speaking of bush meat, Wayne is not very interested in the chick throwing herself at him here (zoo photographer "Dallas") until she's converted into a low-maintenance lover, through FGM--courtesy of the "Warusha" tribe which forcibly "adopts" her. (Though this scene, 98 minutes into HATARI!, is not presented as graphically as similar material in this year's GREEN INFERNO, Sean's reaction to Dallas' "modifications" proves her FGM is more finalized than that of INFERNO.) If this is somewhat of a HATARI! low-light, getting to hear Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk" tune in two variations is the main highlight here.

More than anything else, this movie is about a small group of people who chain smoke...that almost seems to be the focus of the movie. It is set in Africa, as this group of people attempts to capture several different wild animals. Plus there is the side story of a couple romances. That basically is the whole movie...which is not so great, sadly enough. It is somewhat entertaining as they made their efforts to capture some of the animals. However it became more and more redundant and boring as the group of people continue to chain smoke at all times except while they are pursuing the wild animals. There is also some jeopardy involved in the risk involved in capturing the animal. By the end of the movie they have 3 baby elephants and these elephants provide a fair amount of comic relief and substantially improve the story.