Good movie, slow on action

Rating: 7/10 (15 December 2018)

Ron Stallworth (John David) is hired as the first police officer to the Colorado Springs police department in 1970 due to affirmative action laws. Being assigned to the records room was not what Ron was hoping for when he applied, so soon he asked for reassignment within the department. Ron was asked to go undercover at the Colorado College, and observe listeners while civil rights leader Kwame Ture give his speech. While present at the even Ron meets the president of the student union Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier) and begins an interesting relationship with her. Ron is then reassigned to the slower paced intelligence department. There Ron notices a phone number in the paper for local recruits to join the Ku Klux Klan, Ron then calls and pretends to be a white male attempting to join, only problem is he uses his government name while speaking with the Klan chapter president Walter Breachway. Now having established a relationship via phone with the KKK, Ron must enlist the help of his white co-worker Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) to pose as him during the meet and greets with the Klan for obvious reasons.
This films theme being about racism in a time when racism was ending in government settings but remain firm in neighborhoods and communities. With the help of Flip, Ron can infiltrate the Klan by means of gaining support of the grand wizard David Duke via phone meanwhile Flip has gained his place as Ron Stallworth amongst the local chapter. During the time Ron Stallworth was a Klansman who was able to gain enough intel to prevent the death of Patrice via a house bombing because of her Black Panther ties, Ron was also able to let the Klan know mentally African Americans are just as if not smarter than the KKK. Nonetheless Ron was the Klan's three worst enemies, he was an African American and a police officer and he now a Klan member with the official member card with his name on it to prove it.
Similar to the 1996 film A Time To Kill which was based off a 1989 John Grisham novel, both films show unnecessary racism at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan with the burning of the crosses and just the plain dislike and disregard for the African American people as a whole. Both films showed African American males fighting for equality in different forms with the help of both their white counterparts. Whether it was the lawyer in A Time To Kill fighting a racially profiled case or a co-worker helping to infiltrate the Klan, both films showed and told the truth of those times and how working together racism can be defeated.