5.5 - Really?

Its nothing to do with race relations at all - it deserves a lower rating actually, it was that bad. Especially compared to other much superior hostage movies...Funny Games, Panic Room, and Bruce Willis Hostage. It should have been cut by 20 minutes as it just dragged on and on The main white guy actor did not look convincing at all as a white supremist. He should have shaved head for one thing, and didnt really look intimidating with his 5"5 slight frame.
Glover was standard cliche acting. Nothing memorable.
Nothing was good about it. Deserves a 1.

It's definitly not a 7, I gave it a 6... It was alright but it lacked punch and I felt like Evan Ross' talent was wasted and Derek Luke didn't get to shine that much either, both of them are favorites of mine

And the supremacists never felt truly threatening and it was pushing it a little too much by having the racist and Danny Glover hug it out in the end, it's possible that they had a understanding of eachother, I reckon Danny Glover's character in it's criminal days might have been racist towards whites that's why he was able to connect with him on some level in the end. But yeah it just went too fast from "I'm gonna kill you n-word" to "woe is me my racist friends turned their backs on me and now I'm fecked, hug me Danny".

The sun don't shine forever, but as long as it's here then we might as well shine together

My new imdb acquaintance Roell29 reminded me to rate this. I gave it a 5 and support the low rating here's why.

I saw this film last fall at a festival and QA with Danny Glover. Leaving the theater I would have scored the film a 9. I very much enjoyed it. Afterwards I went home and researched the true event. I learned about Officer Frank Trego Jr and felt the film did him an unforgivable disservice by transitioning him from a Mexican-American to an African-American. It seems this was done to racially juxtapose the antagonists and his victims, or worst polarize the audience with this deliberate supplant. I recall during the QA session Mr Glover spoke of how his inspiration for being involved with the film came from his being against capital punishment and finding no one above redemption. In that vein "Supremacy" becomes more of a story about redemption with a racial subplot.

The problem is that the fabrication of the actual events is what makes Tully's redemption
digestible. Present him as the sociopath that he was and no one would care about his turn around.

So yeah 5 points because only half the story was told.

Upcoming: Orphan Black, Vixen, The Knick

Acting was really good but the story was a bit weird. The real incident happened without much drama because the family stayed calm. The family's relatives said that the criminals tried to leave several times but the cops had helicopters everywhere. So they made all the drama stuff up and really didnt make sense. That lowers the rating some.

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Just a six, for me... The acting was great from everybody, as you say - but it took its sweet time to get to a blatantly obvious conclusion (and yes, I know it's based on something that actually happened, but it was obvious they were ultimately going to come to some kind of mutual understanding, otherwise they would never have made the film!) There just wasn't much of anywhere for the film to go, once you realise why it's been made. The actors do a good job getting you there, but it wasn't quite enough for me to be truly satisfied.

Nothing to do with realism or race, for me... and I wish people would stop saying 'It's at least [insert mark here]' ... Everybody is different, and we all think about things in a different way. I rated it 6. That means I liked it. Nobody gets to tell me I have to like it more because of how efficient it is. A story either strikes a chord deeply enough for the viewer to be fulfilled, or it doesn't. This was just a simple 'Racists can learn to change when given something by another ethnicity that their own race denies them', story. Well told, and it deserves praise for that, but still nothing I haven't seen several times before. Don't assume anything. You rate it what you want to, and I'll rate it how I want to... That's the true meaning of an 'open mind'!




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