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Rating:  - A "must see video"
This film directed by Spike Lee, is one of the best movies I've watched. Denzel Washington(Academy Award winner in a different role but sadly missed on this role)depicts the actions,voice and oratorical skills of Malcolm X in an impressive manner. No wonder the book based on this movie "The Autobiography of Malcom X" by Alex Haley is a best seller and a modern American classic. This film has influenced me so much so that I am compelled to watch any motion picture that includes Malcolm X, Spike Lee or Denzel Washington. So far it's the only film that I never get enough of watching, I still borrow the video again and again. However, some viewers may find the running time extraordinarily long, nearly three and half hours! The first part of the film which accounts for the early life of Milcolm X, although essential to the background of the story, should have been shortened. Motion picture, unlike the print media is not to narrate every line of the story. Nonetheless, it is a brilliant and classic work that I've enjoyed very much. It's the closest you can get to understanding the enigmatic and charismatic figure of Malcolm X. Thank you, the makers of this movie. END
Rating:  - A great, yet underrated, epic
Greetings,
I will write this review from a different angle, trying not to repeat what other reviewers have already strongly stated about Spike Lee's "Malcolm X."
It's a sweeping, briskly told story, always captivating.
And so don't let my small critiques (NOT criticisms) of the movie make you think this movie is not worth purchasing. Anyone who likes historical-based drama, civil rights-themed films, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee films and/or Malcolm X must buy this.
My critiques are small. Spike Lee could have done without the ending connecting Malcolm X's battles for equality, justice and recognition to Nelson Mandela. While it's somewhat poignant, it doesn't quite work as the film's ending. It might have served better as a separate feature from the movie -- maybe in the middle or at the end of the credits.
And my second critique has to do with historical fact (although I know there are many things it altered and overlooked in the name of making a well-flowing movie). Malcolm X died in the arms of Japanese-American civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama, not in the arms of his wife, as is shown in the movie. Showing him dying in his wife's arms may have made for a more dramatic, poignant scene, but it's not fact.
But, again, don't let these small critiques turn you away from the film. If its quality could be measured in awards, it would have been the big winner at the typically political, money-based, skewered Academy Awards. Those films the Academy Awards will be forgotten in a matter of years, whereas such films like Malcolm X will still be seen decades from now.
Rating: - Denzel's shining hour....
Spike Lee's account of the life of Malcolm X is an excellent one, however, Spike could have made the film about an hour shorter than it was, primarily by editing the beginning and ending of the movie a little tighter.However, this film's greatness starts and ends with the performance of Denzel Washington. Denzel becomes Malcolm X in this film in a way that is almost frightening. Truly the most powerful performance I've ever seen in a biographical context.
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