Too Heavy Handed

Rating: 7/10 (4 August 2019)

As other reviews have said the first and last scenes of the movie shouldn't be a part of the movie. The movie is a reflection of today's politics through the lens of yesteryear. However, the first and last scenes hammer home a singular perspective rather than the more complex reality the rest of the movie reflects.
The issue isn't as simple as white supremacists are bad and still present. Which is pretty much all those scenes say. It is not just one sided. There are the white supremacists, and there is ANTIFA...they are opposite sides of the same coin. The messages might be polar opposites, the attitudes, intolerance, and adhesion to nonsensical dogma is the same.
I felt there were some key scenes that showed how similar the two opposing groups in the film were. Particularly when the female lead calls Ron "the enemy" in the end because he is a cop, when in fact he accomplishes far more in regards to her goals than the entire organization she runs. She is narrow minded, inflexible, and unable to see the reality of what he has accomplished.
The entire concept that intolerance isn't unidirectional is completely obliterated by those first and last scenes, where it forces a one sided perspective. Racism isn't a one way street. Intolerance and hate for people that are different isn't just something one side does. The people on the far left, and the far right are the same kind of people, they just hold opposing views.