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Summary: The Truth is delievered.
Review: This movie is a great testimony to what truth was about! Spike Lee did a tremendous job and lots of good work in getting this movie out. Densel Washington deserved to win the Oscar as best actor, to be denied is an understatement. Malcolm X was a man of truth and honesty. He did not let lies and misrepresentation lead him astray from the truth. Thank you Spike for your courage in bringing this to the light! Densel and the rest of the actors and actresses who played major roles did so with character !!! You all are winners !!
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Summary: "Controversial and Riveting"!!!!!!!
Review: Denzel Washington is one of the most influential black actors since Sidney Portier and Morgan Freeman in my own opinion. I loved this movie, and I think nobody could have portrayed Malcolm X, a icon in African American history better than Denzel Washington. I think somebody else said it best when they said "Denzel has been robbed" because this movie was definitely one of the rawest biographies I have ever watched.
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Summary: 'X' the most underated masterpiece of the '90's
Review: The scene is set. Black angst, extreme predjudice, and injustice reflected through the Rodney King beating and racial tension of the '90's, and it's nothing new, because Spike Lee takes it from there. He tells us another story that happened almost 30 years prior. The story of a man, a human, a hero, a sinner and a saint, Malcolm X. After seeing "Bamboozled" and reading the "Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X with Alex Haley, I thought "X" would be worth a look, and it really was. Spike Lee tells X's life story with amazing detail and realism. He does not gloss anything over because this is a true story. The 3+ hours that follow are absolutely astounding. Malcolm X was a man who was led on a road of strict conformity to Islam. His ideas were molded and shaped by his own experiences into black supremacy and pride. And just as he had realized his own grievances and was pushing towards a brotherhood of blacks and whites alike, the disidence he had caused amoung he own people finally caught up with him. But for his efforts to create a sense of unity and pride amoung his people, he will be a legend, a hero, a human, and a man in the greatest sense of the word. Denzel Washington unleashes a full calibre performance as X, and Angela Basset does an equally performance. It's a shame that "X" failed to do as well as it did on screen at the Academy Awards, but it can be said that Spike Lee is definitely a man with a message. There is no other filmmaker today that captures the tension, prejudices, life and culture of the African-American lifestyle and all the issues and pertenance to our contemporary society as Spike Lee. Whether it's "X", "Do the Right Thing", or "Bamboozled", Spike Lee captures on film the multi-faceted feelings of the people he represents and the feelings of our nation. Spike Lee is an essential component, and an outstanding filmmaker, in our culture today. "X" is his masterpiece, and certainly a must-see for anyone.
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Summary: Poignant, chilling, a tearjerker
Review: Spike has outdone himself this time. This three hour look at the great Malcolm X was rich and poignant. Lee chronicles the leader's life from his younger days of hustling, through his jail term in which time he became a muslim, until the time of his ill-fated death in the Audubon Ballroom. With this work, Lee brings you to laughter, to tears, to righteous indignation, and even to a silence as you process the depth of both Lee and X. You certainly cannot overlook Denzel's award-winning portrayal of Malcolm X. The similarity in looks is almost eerie and Washington captures the essence of the strong leader who eventually saw unfairness in some of his thoughts and ideas. i cannot recommend this enough to anyone and everyone who wants to know about x, who question Lee as a director, and who just happens to love Denzel as much as I do!
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Summary: Nice Portrayal of a controversial man
Review: It was very difficult for me to go through with this film. However, the topic of race is probrably very uncomfortable to many Americans, whatever their skin color. If we are to move in the future we must discuss and learn about the controversies of the past. This includes Malcolm X, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and George Wallace. It was a little degrading at the end when Lee was praising racist Afrocentric education, the Kennedy assasination, and Black Power. Despite Malcolm's eccentric behavior, his point was clear that African Americans should be treated better by America. He was proud of his race, loved the African American people and his family, and his rejection of the Nation of Islam to embrace Whites as brothers were very positive in improving race relations. Very good and honest view of Malcolm X.
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Summary: the gretaste flick abouzt the gretast man ever!
Review: malclom x was a very convoterosy man. and this moevie shows that veryw ell, btuthit aslso dshows awhat kind of gereat man he wasd two. eveything aboutb this film is perfevet. deznal wsshingtoni ois in one fof ghies best role s ever here! speike's direceting is amdong hsi tops! this was the bestf flick of 1993! all le fans have to watch thtis oene! a grteat gerat flick!
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Summary: A must see film
Review: One of the most brilliant films ever made. Another reviewer, E. Hazell is correct, if maybe even understated in comparing this film with von Sydow's portrayal of Jesus in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and B. Kingsley in "Ghandi". Without question, the portrayal by Denzel Washington of Malcolm X belongs with these two classic efforts. The screenplay closely follows Alex Haley's collaboration with Malcolm X on his autobiography, from his early days as a hustler and pimp, to his transformation and his rise to prominence in the Black Muslims and beyond. In so doing, it traces much of the history of the twentieth century African American experience As another reviewer so inelegantly (and ungrammatically) put it, Malcolm Little sold drugs and women, robbed and lived in the underworld. However, this recognizes far less than half of this compelling and incredible story. This beginning was important only to underscore how far he ultimately came, and leads the viewer to wonder what would have happened had he not been murdered. Wonderful casting including Angela Bassett as his wife Betty, DelRoy Lindo and particularly Al Freeman Jr. as Elijah Muhammad. It was a rather predictable crime that Spike Lee, Denzel Washington and this film did not dominate the Academy Awards.
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Summary: Spike's Opus
Review: Surely the most expected and critically looked at film Spike has made, he did an excellent job. It remains a movie, in the Spike Lee tradition of great music, interesting and characteristic shots, like seeing him sort of sliding towards the camera, a common device in Spike Lee movies. While I thought Denzel wouldn't look like Malcolm X, who was light skinned and lanky, he does such an amazing job. It stays pretty true to Malcolm's autobiography, and the ending scene is rather positive and uplifting. Along with Gandhi, this is one of the best film biographies ever made, a true epic, and an achievement for Spike Lee. He deftly blends his artistic side with the true and sober representation of an American icon. One only wonders whether his movie came out further commoditized the man and then went and took him out of fashion. That would be a negative side effect, if true.
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Summary: Me myself and Malcolm
Review: This movie not bad but brothers jus cain't accept the fact Malcomlm not everythang he cracked up to be. This is proven partly because he probly even sell crack as the film point out. He be ailing and this movie prove the point to a tea. Spike Lee jus doing his job but this ceck out the facts of his life in the film and don't often match the book of the same name. Malcolm have a weakness for white women and the movie does at least make that clear from the get go. He neglect his own black woman because she tell him, "Why, just because I don't [put out." This is the way it truly go down by the book to. Movie Malcom not the real deal. So Spike, don't make this felllow a hero. This is your opinion or just to make some profit from the people? This movie miss the point most of the time but still enjoy.
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Summary: A GUY LIKE THIS DESERVES A MOVIE BIOGRAPHY
Review: SAMUEL L.JACKSON was the directors's first choice to play the part, but he quarrelled with SPIKE ,so DENZEL got it.Either way you look at it, a movie about MALCOLM X is anything but a waist of time.It is interesting to see that the man made a few mistakes early in his life ,but he was able to recover and redeem himself.Any person who does something in helping his people to earn their rights deserves the highest praise. Now, who's gonna play MARTIN LUTHER KING in the near future:WESLEY SNIPES OR SAMUEL L. JACKSON?I go for EDDIE MURPHY ,because he rehearsed it gaining a few pounds when he did THE NUTTY PROFESSOR.
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