black exploitation film

Rating: 2/10 (7 April 2015)

This "black exploitation film" lacks any real sense of narrative, instead it showcases a near-sardonic attempt at complete savagery. The film is highly racist against white people, as it attempts to capitalize on the "brutal" scenes and endear the white audience as somehow responsible for slavery, which we of the present, are in no way culpable.
It is ineffective as both a polemic and drama. Brad Pitt (one of the film's producers) appearing as a ridiculous, self righteous cartoon, lowers it even more into the territory of baseless sentimentalism.
The director is working simply on hyperbolic elements, which make this film highly "unreal". No doubt he is merely using it as visual propaganda, for what cause, remains to be seen.
I would not take such a film to be serious at all.