flawed - 5/10
Washington's performance as Rubin Carter is truly excellent, but I still
can't recommend this film. Several flaws at the screenplay level are salient. The dialogue is dippy; at one point we're even subjected to that hackneyed power-of-books-to-change-the-world garbage - give me a break. The biggest problem with the screenplay, though, is the shallowness of many of the key supporting characters. The three Canadians taking care of Lesra (his family situation, BTW, should have either been excluded completely or treated with some real depth – what we are given is rather half-baked and unsatisfying) are wholly indistinguishable and the racist sheriff is a cartoon. There are also several moments of extreme melodrama, including an early scene where the young Carter is dangled over a waterfall by a child molester. I didn't mind that the film was factually inaccurate, but two other things about The Hurricane heretofore unmentioned in this forum really annoyed me. First: Bob Dylan's song Hurricane, admittedly not a bad tune at all, must have played at least four times in full during the course of the movie, much to my disgruntlement by the time the credits came and I had to hear it again. Two: that the boxing photography was done in black and white and the rest of the picture shot in color seemed to me only a low attempt by the filmmakers to mimic the look, in the boxing scenes, of Martin Scorsese' s Raging Bull, a far greater film than this one.. amershatnawi watch The Black Dahlia movie
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wow great movie.
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another movie of the same actor.
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Awesome movie.
Another Story Ruined by Hollywood
This film is sooooooo boring to watch. When I read the books about both
Lesra's and Rubin's stories, I cried and cheered out loud many times. That was years ago. While watching the film tonight, which happened to be on TV, I could barely stay awake. Hollywood treats the audience like ignorant children. Every scene was ruined because the director doesn't trust us to understand the slightest complexity of the events. What's worse is that only makes the events onscreen even more incomprehensible, especially regarding the track record of the judge in New Jersey. As well, the activists in Canada were portrayed as 3 people who sat around in their house all day mouthing unpassionate quips about life. I think most people who raved about this film were taken by the amazing story of justice finally done, and the escape of Lesra from the poverty and injustice of life in the ghettos of the US. For such deep and complex issues to be addressed, we need deep and complex filmmakers. Hurricane the film is so one-dimensional, and that's a shame because in the right hands it could have contributed to social change. Instead, it's just a showcase for Denzel the actor. I wish this film could have been made by an independent film group in the UK or anywhere else that wouldn't have sanitized the story & the issues with a constant orchestra of horns & violins in the background as is sooo typical in every single drama to come out of Hollyholywood. . |
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