Extraordinary

Rating: Null/10 (15 March 2003)

This film could have shown more in the sense of racial prejudice during the Civil War, but it was still good. I got the impression that Hollywood wanted to make this a happy ending type thing when the Civil War wasn't that type of situation. That Blacks were gonna go fight on with the people that hate them for their freedom. It wasn't that kind of situation. Blacks were often forced to go instead of their masters and they were made promises that weren't kept. The saving grace of this film was that it was more or less told from the Black soldier's perspective. I liked Denzel's character's cynicalness. It was true to form and real in a situation as I just described. He knows better than people think he does. Still, a good movie to watch and learn from about someone else's experience.