Blind Riders Of The Storm.

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2000)

Maybe the makers of the film got here before anyone else did and as such have printed up positive reviews about the Hurricane,the fim about the 1960 middleweight contender Rubin Hurricane Carter played by ,who else, but Denzel Washington. Does the film have flaws?Of course it does.Carter was given three life sentences for a crime HE says he did not commit,and the movie goes overboard giving only his side of the story.As with all Hollywood pictures the true story of Carter involvement in the murder he was accused of will not be told totally.What for it is his story after all.THE HURRICANE!Oh well so much for evenhandedness. The real life Carter wasn't this saint that Washington portrays in the movie,he was a more gruesome figure.Therefore thanks to the PC content of this movie no one watching it will know him or herself if
Carter is really innocent since they really don't know the true facts of his case. The bringing along of the black kid who reads Carter's biography and then seeing him live with three hippies from Canada no less,two men and a woman ,and see them as the driving force to save Carter from prison life is almost too much.Three white live and let live canucks raising a black kid and they dedicate themselves to getting a black man out of prison?A lifer no less?Somewhere out there some lifer is asking where are three canadians to get him out of prison?Maybe he should write a book. The police are portrayed as comic book villians so the credability of this film is thrown out from the get go.The Hurricane is a curious study to say the least,at least in our age.When Carter was put in prison the civil rights movement was still going on.Now his story seems old as the political correctness of our times has even things out between people or made them more seperate whichever way you want to look at it. Do not get me wrong,there is still plenty of racism out there.But was Carter really innocent?Could have Norman Jewison told the story in a balanced fashion? How many people out there know the true facts of this case?Shall the real story of this man and his trial and his crime be told.In this corny movie the answer is no.