This movie doesn't care about their achievements, just their race.

Rating: 3/10 (8 January 2017)

If you want to go to the theater and learn all about three genius and incredibly historic women that history forgot, hidden figures is not for you. If you want to see yet another movie about how race relations in the early 60's were awful, and hear more and more and more about how racism and sexism is bad, than this is the movie for you.
Among two and a half long hours of pointless personal life drama, close-up shots on signs that read "COLORED ONLY", and an engineer refusing to co- author papers, you will find short snippets of what this movie both could and should have been, a story about intelligent women with important contributions to one of humanity's greatest achievements. I really wanted to go into this movie and learn about these women, but because the writers and directors cared more about telling us all about events and ideologies we already knew about, I can't even remember their names after just getting out of the theater.
Here are some examples of how they overly drill in that racism is bad, just in case we didn't already know, all while adding nothing to the story:
-A scene with anti-segregation protesters being attacked by police with dogs
-News report about the firebombing of a freedom riders bus
-Mother and child just about running away from a water fountain when a black man uses the one next to theirs
-A sarcastic remark about racism/sexism from one of the main characters every few seconds
-About five scenes where a black person walks into a room full of white people, and they all stop and stare at the black person
In a documentary about racism and segregation during the civil rights movement, all of those would fit perfectly in, but in this movie, they just add to the run time and force you to have to search for the few times where the movie teaches us anything about the titular hidden figures.
I desperately wanted to like this movie, but all in all, I have to give this movie a 3/10 because this movie doesn't care about the main character's achievements, just their race.