Amazing!

Rating: 8/10 (19 June 2013)

I'm pretty sure space aliens monitoring our media on Oscar night were throwing Illudium Pu-36 space modulators at their view screens (and each other's heads). Obscenity! I almost bottled the ManTears I shed when a thoroughly humbled Malcolm X first entered the office of Mr. Muhammad but I digress.
Denzel's performance makes an objectively holistic review of the film that much more challenging because while you want to believe everyone's acting was up to the bar he set you can't help feeling as though he carried most of the film himself.
The story was told well enough and Malcolm X's character arc was, in a word, beautiful.
If you're used to hearing the usual defensive and emotionalist tripe: "He was a black hate monger and terrorist - the polar opposite of Martin Luther King," this film renders a compelling illustration of Malcolm X's personal motivations which shed a different light on the man and ring a lot more credible.
Thoroughly enjoyed it!