I was pleasantly surprised by this one. The trailers didn't leave me with too much impression, but I was still willing to give it a fair shot anyway, and now I'm quite glad I did. I found this movie to be pretty good overall, despite that I had a few issues here and there. The cons are mediocre characterizations, slightly slow, clunky pacing at times, some historical points in this movie are inaccurate, and almost no actual violence whatsoever due to the PG-13 rating, I personally feel this movie would greatly benefitted from the R rating rather than PG-13 which was done for sake of attracting a wider audience.
And now for the positive aspects of this movie. Amazing acting performances all-around, above average visuals and cinematography, high quality production values, interesting presentation and concept, some useful social commentary here & there, cool action scenes along with decent editing, and a great Terrence Blanchard music score.
In conclusion, while this movie could use a few improvements here and there, I still had a good time watching this movie overall and is something I do personally recommend.
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