Great Acting, But Overdone Stereotypes & Bias

Rating: 5/10 (29 October 2006)

This was a very intense story about three missing civil rights workers in 1964 and the U.S. government looking into that disappearance (and murder) in Mississippi, where it happened.
On first viewing, I really enjoyed this because of the top-rated performance by the lead actors Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe and the fact that the story was interesting. However, on subsequent viewings, the ultra-Liberal bias of the people making this movie became more and more evident. Typical of Liberal elitists, they make every Southerner in this film (but one) look like very stupid, extremely racist hicks - the kind of people who want to strangle yourself.
Hey, no one argues that racism is bad, bad thing but this goes to ridiculous extremes while giving cheap shots to Christians, as well. That's another typical feature of liberal bias. They have no problem showing us those slimeballs who are anti-Semitic, as also portrayed here, but at the same time the people who make the films can't hide their own anti-Christian bias.
Too bad because Hackman and Dafoe are superb and the story moves very well. It's a fast two hours of film "entertainment." Note: beware the language is very rough with way too many usages of the Lord's name in vain.