Another Spielberg's Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (10 February 2013)

I haven't watched this movie till very recently and wow, what a movie it has been! This is a sheer work of a genius who is by all means Mr. Steven Spielberg. He does not do anything wrong again and again, and thus in this movie he did a great job, too. The very topic of slavery is so painful and disturbing that it would be wrong to make a sweetly home-video drama with no blood or brutality. Nay, sirs, Amistad did exactly the right job - the movie showed slavery as it is - brutal, bloody, bad, gory, evil, malicious, greedy, horrific and unpardonable. The casting is perfect and there are no bad actors in this movie at all. Even the small part of Anna Paquin as Isabella of Spain is a real gem, what say can we of bigger and even better parts by impeccable Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins? The film is very heavy, full of really unpleasant violence scenes but this all is not for the violence's sake. Nay, again, this all served the ultimate goal - to depict the inhuman nature of human trade, and this excellent movie did that well