Uncle Oscar, meet Denzel Washington! (Again)

Rating: Null/10 (1 February 2000)

I always thought that there aren't many Afro American actors better than Denzel Washington, after watching Hurricane I believe there aren't many white one's either. In this brilliant film, which in my opinion is the best this year, Denzel gives the most beautiful performance of his career yet. It's simply superb.
To be honest, I hadn't heard of Hurricane before Denzel got a well-deserved best actor award at Golden Globe. The award made me curious and I rented it last night and boy, what an experience that was! I just couldn't take my eyes of the screen for a fraction of a second. I knew I was watching a masterpiece, five minutes into it. It had been a long time since I have seen a movie that has touched my heart in the way Hurricane did. It made me realize just how much pain Rubin Carter, or any wrongly accused person for that matter, would have felt. And still, I fully believe in what Denzel says to Deborah Unger `You just can't understand how I feel cause you've never been in the prison'
The movie is filled with scenes that would melt your heart and bring tears to your eyes. The one I found truly exceptional was the one when a convict Hemmings' mother comes to see him in prison and is told that his son is in lock up so she can't see him. The look on that lady's face would stay in my mind for a long time. Full marks to Norman Jewison.
The supporting cast has performed really well but the star of the show is definitely Washington. If he doesn't get an Oscar for this one the case wouldn't be much different than that of the fight that Hurricane lost because of judges' biased decision. And the only thing then we might say won't be much different from what the commentator said on that match, i.e. `the judges must have been watching some other fight.'