Very Impressive

Rating: Null/10 (4 May 2001)

I enjoyed The Hurricane immensely. The film is very powerful and is one of those films that you think about for a while after having watched. Whether the film is a true account of what happened ias another matter but things such as Washington's performance make you believe Rubin Carter's story. The only real hitch in the film is John Hannah's accent which is somewhere between Scottish and Canadian but he never really decides which way to go. It isn't plainly obvious what will happen at the end for people who do not know the story (like myself before I watched it) but this film adds another cracker to the 'jail-conspiracy' genre. I'd give this film 8.5/10.