One of the Year's Best!!

Rating: 10/10 (3 February 2000)

Definitely one the best films of the year! Denzel Washington sizzles on screen as usual. Norman Jewison has taken this story and brought it to the big screen wonderfully. Washington plays Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. A champion boxer who was framed for murder in the 50's, by a racist, corrupt police force. A young black boy (played with passion by newcomer Vicellous Reon Shannon) reads his book, and decides that Carter shouldn't be in prison, because he is innocent. The boys mentors, a group of Canadians, joins him and makes Carter's freedom their life's work, leading up to his eventual freedom in 1988. A truly inspiring film that tackles head on Carters original hatred of the whites that did this to him, to his eventual trust, and friendship the group of white people who, along with the boy, eventually help him to become free.
A film everyone should see!