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Summary: Best Film Of Of 2002
Review: This was a great film , the acting was great , the screenplay was excellent , and it was a true story. Anytime hollywood "allows" a positive movie about anything dealing was the African-American community it's a "great" movie. I especially love the family reunion scene and of course Denzel did a great job directing this movie.
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Summary: Important, Powerful, Necessary
Review: So many people do not care to deal with the issues that this film addresses. Antwone Fisher pushes us to think about his life as well as our own lives. He deals with foster care, sexual abuse, parental abadonment, homelessness and loss, but he also causes us to think of the beauty of our first love, the laughter one has with good friends, the parental guidance we can acquire from other adults who may not be related to us, the pride of our great nation and the power of forgiveness. This film touches so many people from varying backgrounds and age groups. I am proud to say that I watched this film and wept at the sad parts as well as the truimphant parts. What a great man!!! And his poetry shown in the film reveals a deeper side, making this wonderfully developed character a multi-dementional human being. Cheers for Antwone Fisher!!!
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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: I didn't run out to see this movie, I heard it was okay.........
I guess that's why I was so shocked! This story, his life was although traumatic, it inspires. Another positive African American movie for family. It's good to see a man come full circle without having to fall to drugs, or jail. True he had a fury about himself, it was still a very good movie, powerful time line as well as a great debut for Denzel as more than an actor. Now I'll get the book.
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Summary: Scared
Review: I really loved this movie, I mean loved it to death. The actors were incredible.... This is a movie that is definitely sending out the message that no matter what your circumstances are you can overcome them. ... I honestly don't want to tell anything about the movie. Please watch is for yourself ...
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Summary: Worst movie of all time
Review: This incredibly boring movie features terrible acting, terrible script, terrible editing, and terrible directing. It only got made because... well, I cannot think of a single excuse for a film like this. Wasting film stock and trashing the environment... No social value whatsoever... Avoid like a plague!
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Summary: That which does not kill us only serves to make us stronger
Review: I watched this movie and cried during several scenes. I could relate to many of the abuse issues Antwone suffered at the hands of those adults that could have helped him, but chose, for whatever reasons, to beat him down. In his formative years, no one showed him how to be the adult he turned out to be, only after years of trial and error. After years of abuse, just having someone to talk to, to validate your feelings, makes you stronger, better equipped to face your demons of the past. It still baffles me why anyone would hurt a child, physically, psychologically or sexually. It's so easy to tear down and mess up a child's life, but so much more rewarding to build them up to be wonderful adults. This movie was very heartwarming, I will watch it often, I'm sure.
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Summary: A Wonderful Movie
Review: I had heard good things about this movie and decided to go check it out, not knowing anything that it was about. Well, one of my favorite types of movies are the ones about interpersonal family relationships. This one really got to me and I thought it was incredible. Denzel was wonderful as well. The new actor, Derek Luke, I expect and hope to see in other movies. This film was very well acted. If you haven't see this movie, I would highly recommend picking it up.
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Summary: fisher soars
Review: I'm not going to write a long, drawn-out analytical synopsis of this movie, but I will say that is a toughing portrayal and moving story of a young black man who overcomes the demons from his past. Derek Luke did a great job in his film debut and of course Denzel did an excellent job directing the movie. All the characters were very realistic and they were acted in a such a way that it touched your soul. It will make you laugh, cry, feel uneasy (especially the scenes depicting Antwone being abused -sexually and emotionally- as a child) and will keep you on the edge of your seat. Antwone is a lovable character and you feel so happy for him as he takes the journey to discovering who he really is.
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Summary: The movie's approach subverts the drama.
Review: "Antwone Fisher," the story of a bright black Naval officer who addresses his violence through therapy sessions with a psychologist, was delivered a built-in comparison schematic during its theatrical run; more than a few viewers and critics labeled it a minority version of "Good Will Hunting." In fact, the movie, as directed by Denzel Washington and written by Fisher himself, separates itself from "Hunting" in one important way: Whereas the Damon/Affleck picture made no squeals about only referencing childhood traumas in its narrative, Washington and Fisher show these abuse scenes consistently and interspersed with therapy scenes. That the movie should present itself like this, as a kind of "Ordinary People" with more than dysfunction at its heart, instead of a straight, harrowing experience, speaks to just how ingrained the psychotherapy ethic has become. Whereas "Hunting" is about the therapy itself, the rhythms it can take, the mood of it, "Antwone Fisher" uses Washington's character, Jerome Davenport, as a kind of admission price to the meat of the movie; this isn't therapy, it's exposition. By hewing us so close to Antwone's voice-over explanation of traumatic events, the trauma itself is robbed of impacting us in any way aside the version that the manipulative screenplay would prefer. The lead performances by Washington and Derek Luke, who plays Fisher, are genial enough, as is the work by the va-va-va Joy Bryant. But the movie is not about a solution to Fisher's troubles -- it knows the solution, and metes it out slowly to the audiences in the talking bits that occur between flashback traumas. There is an emotional scene at movie's end that works on pure dramatic value alone. But Washington, and the real life Fisher, hold the abuse scenes too dear to their heart; they are graphic, and very, very sad, but they merely shock, and nothing else; they exist in such a specific framework of the movie that they are little more than cues. Which is not to say Washington is a poor filmmaker. Visually, he shows promise, although that is not hard in today's directorial climate. Washington has an eye for performance, and beautiful women, and he uses the camera in a subtle, slightly lingering fashion to export far more out of Bryant's character than there is on the written page. Washington seems to know, and we seem to agree, that this is one seriously beautiful woman Antwone's involved with. She provides, without us really acknowledging it, the movie's real motivation for success. Washington, too, enjoys the brooding passivity of Luke's performance, as he smolders just underneath the surface of dispassionate analysis. Luke tells his ugly story as if he's turned over so many times as to learn how to tell it well, and while it steals some from the flashbacks, it marks Luke as a formidable player in the room with Washington. For his part, Washington sits back and waits too confidently; his Davenport acts as though he's read the screenplay and is merely waiting for Luke to fire off the first line. "Antwone Fisher" is deeply earnest, and pretty much on the level, and you cannot fault it for those things. It means very well. But it isn't very cinematic and you can see its gears churning before it ever gets there. As much as Luke works himself up, and as good as Bryant looks, the movie never seems to happen away from the preordained movement of the screenplay. It's honest, moving...and boring.
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Summary: Excellent Movie
Review: Antwone Fisher is the true story of a young man who survived. Directed wonderfully by Denzel Washington, we follow Antwone from his childhood until his career in the Navy. We first meet Antwone when he wakes from a dream, and proceeds to fight with another seaman. After this aggression, which is a recurring theme of his stint in the Navy, he is assigned to a therapist to learn to control his anger. From his session with Denzel Washington's character, the truth of the origin of his anger is revealed. This story is moving. It will make you hurt for the little boy, and cry when he finds "peace." I highly recommend this movie for everyone to see.
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