Too simplistic. Some really bad dialogue.

Rating: 3/10 (25 February 2019)

I can't believe this was nominated for an Oscar. And for directing too! Maybe it's a style and I am not understanding it, but many scenes just seemed clunky to me. Acting is kind of meh. And the dialogue is full of cliches or worse - slogans, especially on the clansmen side. It's really unfortunate because it could have been a great story. There really was a young, ambitious (if overconfident) African American cop who on a lark, out of boredom responded to a classified ad from the KKK which lead to an undercover investigation with his white colleague being his face for the Clan. But they made everything too black and white, no pun intended. White people are either extremely racist or anti-racist. I found it simplistic and felt like it glossed over important nuances and sugarcoated things. The racists are total caricatures. I hate to say it, but the rest of the characters are not well developed either.