I Got This Wrong

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2018)

Continuing my plan to watch every Steven Spielberg movie in order, I come to Amistad.
I hold my hands up, and say I was totally wrong on this movie. It did nothing for me the first time I watched it. Yet, when I rewatched it I was blown away. It's not perfect, its historically inaccurate and Morgan Freeman is surprisingly under used. We get a lot of shots of him looking on, but not actually doing a lot.
All the cast are great, and Spielberg knows how to tug on the heartstrings.
Amistad was mostly ignored by cinemagoers upon its release the 50th highest grossing movie of 1997. With a $44 million dollar domestic gross.