Yes, the acting was good but...

Rating: 5/10 (5 July 2015)

Yes, the acting was good, some of it truly exceptional. However... this movie felt as if someone had either lost a whole bunch of pages in the history book or they just cut and chopped and the cutting room floor is knee deep in bits and pieces that might better have been left in.
A story such as this can't be effectively told in two hours, not unless the movie maker is truly brilliant. And that's what's seriously flawed about it. In some places in jumped so much that even my quickest, most discerning attention was left wondering... what the heck??? Stunning performances from the actors; all of them.
I was not terribly interested to learn that MLK was a serial adulterer or a smoker... whatever... that's for his family to know and understand and deal with, not me. I got mixed messages from this. I think what the movie maker was trying to do was to show that even truly great men are flawed... wow... what a revelation... as if we don't already know that. So I was left less than particularly interested in this great revelation.
I think that the approach was ordinary, rather sloppy, wasting a lot of good performances. Like I said, it may still be on the cutting room floor, we'll never know.
I find MLK utterly amazing in what he achieved and I'm not religious or black. I think he showed extraordinary genius and bravery, whether he smoked, was unfortunately attracted to other women, or not.
An average movie made with wonderful actors that won't be memorable for me.