One of the best biopics of it's time

Rating: 8/10 (3 May 2015)

I'm telling you the truth.. I've watched this prejudiced that there weren't could be a better biopic for the African American leaders of the Civil Rights Movement since Spike Lee's Malcolm X. Fortunately the storytelling of a good biopic has changed since Spielberg's Lincoln, that suggested the notion of narrating the best achievement of the person in interest, instead of painfully portraying his life from birth to death, filling a good story with unnecessary trivia information, better characterised as gossip...The former PR has turned into a decent director for this one, the casting director's choices were brilliant (especialy portraying the white supremacists with Roth, Houston, Dwyer)and all of the performances are adequately powerful. It's quite an educational film about one the 2 great leaders of the African American Civil Rights Movement that doesn't sanctify him exactly (as Lee did in Malcolm X)but doesn't quite justifie also, his absolute power amongst his followers, since the start of the movie presents Dr. King receiving the Nobel Prize, thus meaning that his position in the movement and his popularity were already established. It would be sweeter if the storyteller mentioned, through short flash-backs, his earlier successes (working alongside JFK)so that his current start-of-the-film position, could be better understood.