A.C.’s Review: I
went to see this on MLK day appropriately enough. The movie focus on
Martin Luther King trying to organize a march from Selma to the Alabama
capitol in protest
of blatant voting rights violation against blacks in the state. When
he’s not battling racists MLK is often visiting Lyndon Baines Johnson at
the White House trying to get the reluctant President to get busy on
Civil Rights legislation.
The
movie was okay but it may not get the awards that it was shooting for
by releasing on Christmas to qualify for the awards season. There was
nothing that stood
out about it other than the mind boggling casting of Tom Wilkinson as
LBJ and Dylan Baker as J. Edgar Hoover. These guys look NOTHING like the
real men and there is nothing the least bit in Wilkinson’s performance
to suggest LBJ is a Texan. Complete miscasting.
Also Oprah one of the producers shows up in the proceedings to dust off
her SAG card.
Best
Scene: The montage of people’s reaction across the nation when they see
the brutality of the racists trying to prevent the Freedom Marches.
A.C.’s Rating: DVD
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