Great movie about fighting for freedom

Rating: 10/10 (30 April 2014)

Steven Spielberg without question is the world's greatest director thanks to masterpieces like Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lincoln, Munich, and of course this film. The movie tells the true story of an 1839 mutiny of a slave ship named La Amistad that is traveling towards America's northeastern coast. The movie stars Djimon Honsou as one of the slaves on the ship whose name is Cinque. The movie also stars Matthew McConaughey, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Hawthorne, and Anna Paquin as Queen Isabella II of Spain. What Spielberg tries to teach us with his film is that how badly treated the slaves were while on that ship of torture and abuse and how they fought for their freedom in real life. Director Steven Spielberg really knows where to put the facts in his historical epics. This movie in my critical opinion is the best movie of 1997 is because of it's inspirational details of why racism was wrong in the first place.