Enjoyable and still overrated

Rating: 6/10 (29 March 2017)

Enjoyable and still overrated Having seen is now, by far the best part of it IMO is the fact of being a movie based on true events. The positive message that talented black people made it through the barriers of then-segregation with persistence is indeed nice. But it is put into scene with a too much schmaltz. The sets reproduce the 50&60ies quite well, as space adept you might also love the technical scenes of the rocket gear in action, but it somehow ends there. A bit curious it made it to the Oscar nominations IMO, at least it didn't win any rightly. This would have been indeed to much concession to the pioneer character of true events behind.
What I liked most or was portrayed best, I think, was how the feeling of the then-imposed rule for blacks of standing back "humbly" was put into scene.