a real bum burner

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2007)

This was slow, ridiculous and boring beyond belief.
The one element I found interesting was the way operatic recitative was attempted, in that the actors sung lines which were written as speech at times.
For the rest of it, it portrayed black people as downtrodden yet again, and surely that is getting old.
I did think Beyonce Knowles was particularly good, and at last Eddie Murphy produced a decent acting performance.
For the rest, snoresville.
brendan (atlanta)