great chemistry and performances

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2019)

Ali and Viggo Mortensen, bring to screen a chemistry that is poignant and rousing. Yet, for a film that underscores the ability of American racism to permeate the length and breadth of public consciousness, Green Book gives an inexplicable viewpoint of racism. Much of the movie's commentary on racism is designed in the past tense and even the condemnation comes with a straightforward solution. As if implying, that racism is one of those problems that once existed and is now eradicated. Even Tony's bigotry, is shrouded in layers of sympathy - the kind displayed by well-meaning, but eventually racist, friends and family. It's this superficial self-congratulatory cliched tone threatening to undo the bonding of the odd-couple pairing for much of the film's two-hour runtime. Overall a great adaptation of a true story.