Worth seeing but kind of blah execution on an important subject

Rating: 5/10 (22 January 2019)

I found Selma surprisingly hard to get into and finish past about the first 30 minutes. I kept stopping and taking breaks until reaching the end. It's kind of unengaging, by-the-numbers, and doesn't draw you in like I hoped.
The casting isn't quite right. Oyelowo doesn't seem to know how to pull off MLK's restraint and leave the drama for the words and the voice. Doesn't look like him. Doesn't sound like him. Doesn't act like him. Randy Quaid was also a better LBJ.
Costumes were even a miss. Selma's re-imagined 60s mens suits have stupidly-high notches and/or Parisian lapels. Oliver Stone films had far more accurate clothes compared to this Hollywoodized version.
My favorite aspect about Selma was probably the FBI stuff that, in my opinion, is never out of place to talk about.