Moving and uplifting... for an outright lie of a film.

Rating: 3/10 (28 September 2003)

Make no bones about it, the Hurricane is a movie knee deep in Hollywoods twisted idea of reality, and by that I mean why tell the truth when a lie makes for a much better film? Well, in reality it probably would not do so,for the true story of Carter and his incarceration would have made him more of a thug and less of the "victimized African American" that the propaganda machine in Hollywood would hope you to see. Washington as usual is very strong in his role though almost nauseating in his delivery of many politically skewed lines fed to him from the obvious sympathy script. Hell even the real Carter has criticized the film for its watered down characterizations. The kneejerk liberal garbage this film exudes is sickening to anyone who wants truth in films, but hey go figure... Its Hollywood afterall, a place where other outright fallacies like Murder in the First and to a lesser extent movies like A Perfect Mind were made. If you wanna see the truth do a search on the case on the net, you sure as hell arent getting it here...