Khartoum

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I don’t know if I would call Khartoum hot garbage, but I want to call it hot garbage.

Released about five years after Lawrence of Arabia, the movie is an obvious attempt to replicate the aesthetics and feel of David Lean’s grand masterpiece. The problems, though, pop up early and often.

It’s really hard to view Khartoum without thinking of Lawrence of Arabia because the parallels are so numerous. Desert based conflict (the Sudan vs. Arabia) where an Englishman, largely detached from the lowe...