Great...I'm very glad Spike Lee decided to direct this.

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2002)

All I have to say about Malcolm X is that Spike Lee made this film human, portraying the civil rights leader as a person and not an angel as in almost every other biopic that is spewed out by American studios these days. Norman Jewison was originally slated to direct this film but was replaced with Lee after Lee stated that a black person should direct this film. I am very glad he did, because after seeing The Hurricane, Jewison would have probably left out all of the mistakes Malcolm Little made during the earlier parts of his life and made him out to be a saint like he did with Ruben Carter. The intention of the biopic should be to accurately portray a person, not to make that person larger than life...Spike Lee did a great job of this...I only wish he would have directed the Hurricane.