That's what I like to see...

Rating: 3/10 (27 March 2006)

Slow, slow, slow. The only reason this movie got an Oscar is because Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman are in it. And because it is about someone with the "heart of a champion." Some champion. If anyone made a movie that: glorified the mercy killing of American slaves before the Civil War rather than live a life of slavery, glorified the mercy killing of women who are abused and would be living a horrible life anyway, or glorified the mercy killing of someone who was blind and couldn't see anything anyway, they would be publicly scorned for the implication that these people lead lives that have less value than those of others. However, the media and critics everywhere have latched onto this movie and raved. Thank God for Clint Eastwood, otherwise, our "champion" might have gone through life disabled. Which is, apparently, now in the eyes of Hollywood, a fate worse than death. An insult to every disabled person in the United States and an unbearably destructive twist to an otherwise inspiring movie.