Very good film

Rating: 9/10 (27 January 2011)

i cannot understand many of the bad reviews about this film. i mean 1/10? seriously? i don't pretend to know all the facts about the history of the Armistad but the film itself is beautiful and very moving. the characters were very good with the exception of one of my favourite actors Morgan Freeman, i felt he didn't really get much screen time and wasn't that important to the film. had he not been in it, the story would of been exactly the same.
Spielberg has done some brilliant work portraying historical events like shindlers list and colour purple. this is right up there with them, possibly better