Pretty good, but not Oscar worthy...

Rating: 7/10 (2 March 2000)

I was impressed by The Hurricane... It was an interesting story, with a good plot, that actually moves pretty quickly despite being over 2 1/2 hours long... I had a bit of a problem with the guys from Canada coming down to help him so quickly... The movie didn't give them enough reason to do it, but I'm sure that was just for time restraints... Washington is good, but he is nowhere near the level of Kevin Spacey in American Beauty and Russell Crowe in The Insider... I like Denzel a lot as an actor, but if he wins the Oscar, it will be because the Academy is trying to be politically correct...