Hidden figures meets hidden substance

Rating: 6/10 (15 January 2017)

While Hidden Figures is entertaining it's also a fairly atypical Hollywood political statement film which by definition lacks any real weight.
Hidden Figures explores segregation with much the same depth as Forrest Gump explored the 60's anti-war movement, the material is safe for white suburbanites who want to be entertained rather than confronted by actual reality so no doubt will clean up at the box office.
Watchable but more of a rose colored glass version of a story that goes out of it's way to not upset the audience than a factual biopic of any substance.
Personally, this movie made me think of Public Enemy's Burn Hollywood Burn but then I remembered Ice Cube's latest buddy cop travesty and the pitiful state today's revolutionary ideologies have been reduced to.