Phenomenal film

Rating: 10/10 (16 October 2008)

More people should see this. Nay, everyone should see this. You cannot imagine a more perfect script, more perfect acting, a more perfect film. I saw this with my mom and my brother, the three of us making up three of the five people that showed up that particular day, which is a pity since this is the second greatest historical picture ever (Lawrence of Arabia, of course, being first).
Loved the epic nuances and the beautiful telling of the Christ by Dimon in the middle of the slave ship.
Every actor in this film gives the performance of a lifetime. In a time when the majority of movies are, and I say this with no hesitation whatsoever, total crap, it's refreshing to find that a few films rise above to become modern masterpieces.
Among recent films that can carry this title are Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare in Love, Luther,, the Good Shepard, Children of Men, and the Queen. But Amazing Grace dwarfs them all to become the greatest film in the last at least the last three years, but probably more. I have yet to see a film that moved me to tears of joy or sadness, but this came close. The theater in which I saw it had no other remotely interesting movies showing but this (and 300, which I want to see simply because it looks cool). Alas, in a world where more people want to rush to the most atrocious thing that the film world has to offer, there isn't much of a place for Amistad. But I certainly will buy this movie when it's released on DVD, and