Good for Its Genre

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2016)

12 Years a Slave was, overall, a pretty good movie. I don't usually watch historical fiction movies as I do not prefer them, but it was good for a historical fiction movie. There was action, conflict, a person you could route for and a goal you could hope they would achieve.
The actors were decent and I've got to give them props because this had to have been a very difficult movie to act in. It had to have been very emotionally taxing.
Although, the violence was intense and very graphic, a part I didn't enjoy at all, I think it painted a realistic picture of what slavery was like and gave me a better grasp of what it was actually like. Also, the white people were mainly scumbags and the movie made it seem like all white people were evil, which some of the characters in the movie were, but not all of them.