American History X

Rating: 10/10 (14 November 2005)

Americam History X,is a very good movie. I saw it when it first came out in the theaters, and I was directly changed on some of my point of views, that I had before the movie. Edward Norton, which gained about 30 pounds of muscle for this movie was astonishingly, with his roll and how he played it. Edward Furlong also played a good role. Here is a review of the movie. The story follows an intelligent young man named Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) and his decline into the world of disillusion and hate known as White Supremacy. Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) buffed up to 190 pounds, with a shaved head, swastika tattoo, biker goatee and a feral, angry gaze, he is one scary image. Once a thoughtful and easy-going teen, he soon begins his change when his casually racist firefighter father is killed while trying to put out a fire in a black neighborhood. Falling under the wind of a neo-Nazi (Stacy Keach), Derek becomes a recruiting agent for local white kids. While the local movement grows, Derek gets deeper and deeper in, polluted more and more by hate. This all comes together when Derek kills two black gang members who tried to steal his truck. He is caught and sent to jail, where he is shown the error of his ways. The hard way. With the help of one of his former teachers (Avery Brooks), Derek begins to reform. However, it may be too little too late. While Derek was in prison, his younger brother Danny (Edward Furlong) is starting to head down the same path. Now, aside from trying to leave the world he created he has to save his little brother from it too. I had do to a movie review for my English class so I watched the movie again, and I was not nearly as pleased as the first time. The movie seemed kind of all fake and so played out. You knew what was going to happen next. So I guess if I was you I would only see it once, and I would definitely not buy the DVD unless you collect movies, because this would be a very good movie to add to your collection.