Colour me underwhelmed

Rating: 6/10 (11 January 2014)

There are things to like here for sure but I doubt this rates in my top three all-time black slavery movies ...
A stellar cast but mediocre screenplay/script leave this as an average watch and I'm not sure what this adds to the (ever increasing) back catalogue of black slavery movies ...
The main problem for me I think is that Patsey (a young female black slave who is whipped to within an inch of her life and repeatedly sexually assaulted by her owner and then picked on/assaulted by the owner's jealous wife, again, repeatedly) goes through 1000x more pain, humiliation and suffering than the main character does and she's left behind for more of the same no doubt until her dying day whilst he's back in New York having been freed to go back to his spoilt bunny lifestyle - where's the narrative drama there? All I cared about was Patsey who he, apparently, left to suffer until her dying day even after she begged him to kill her ...
PS: Brad Pitt's role towards the end of the movie was really offputting - sorry Brad but you can't be who/what you are and just turn up at the end of the film and not expect to throw the whole thing off-kilter, Fassbender must have been really p*ssed cos there's really no point even trying to do anything with your own performance if you're then going to roll in at the end with your Quaker beard and being Brad Pitt n all and tossing the audience's immersion out of the window - you're like one step away from being Troy McLure my friend, even if you are "producing" the movie ...