Good, but kinda odd

Rating: 7/10 (10 July 2000)

Steven Spielberg's Amistad is a good effort on his part (also his first directorial effort for his Dreamworks pictures), which is the direction, but it is kinda odd. The plot is well executed, but many scenes (mainly with the Amistad Africans) seemed strange. But besides that, the story gets the movie to be good. Especially with It's acting by Morgan Freeman, Sir Anthony Hopkins (oddly, he is the only real main white lead in this film and he got an Oscar nomination), Matthew McConaghey and in a breakthrough performance Djimon Hunsou. Film follows int he tradition of Spielberg's black cinema (The Color Purple). Not in the best of the year film category, but not Spielberg's worst either. B+