Bait and Switch

Rating: 2/10 (7 September 2018)

This movie is a masquerade in more ways than the plot itself. The majority of this movie could pass for a decent, well-acted movie written around an historical event of significance. There is genuine humor in the premise of a black man pulling the rug over white supremicists, and the plot lines hold together reasonably well. The actors did their jobs well. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, the bias of the producers, OR the writers, OR the director, OR someone, caused the film to become a blatant activist propaganda flick. It is a shame, as this movie played straight without the political leverage at the end had the fundamentals of a very good movie. There is enough political BS in this country without subverting a film to try to shape public opinion, and I am more than a little saddened by the effort and result of this manipulation. In retrospect, it is not a surprise that the movie was so poorly attended. What could have been a seismic historical effort with humor, becomes instead a treatise on the art of flim-flam. A waste of time and money.