um, no

Rating: 3/10 (31 March 2014)

Maybe it was because I heard so many good things about it that I was expecting too much out of this film. To be fair however as I stopped half way through the film (it lacked any emotional 'hook') so I'll just speak about the parts I did see.
Acting was terrible. and I'm not talking about the lead characters here, but the smaller roles. For instance the scene where Solomon is beaten with a wooden bat for the first time. I think the director was trying to get some shock value out of the scene, but frankly, the aggressor seemed to be over doing it. Scenes like these repeated monotonously over the next hour or so that I watched before I finally quit.
I think this movie was some sort of an American apology to the black community. Sit for two hours and curse your ancestors for what they did and then move on in life. I wonder why no one makes a movie on the horrors of racism people face today?