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Amistad

R
Movie
1997
2h 35m
English
Drama, History, Mystery
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
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Morgan Freeman
Theodore Joadson
Nigel Hawthorne
Martin Van Buren
Anthony Hopkins
John Quincy Adams
Matthew McConaughey
Roger Sherman Baldwin
David Paymer
Secretary John Forsyth
Anna Paquin
Queen Isabella
Tomas Milian
Calderon
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Ensign Covey
Ralph Brown
Lieutenant Gedney
Darren E Burrows
Lieutenant Meade
Allan Rich
Judge Juttson
Peter Firth
Captain Fitzgerald
Jeremy Northam
Judge Coglin
Arliss Howard
John C. Calhoun
Willie Amakye
Folowa - Amistad African
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Written By: David Franzoni

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simonynwa says...
10 years ago
Amistad lacks the detachment and rawness that made Schindler's List so powerful, but demonstrates Spielberg's ability as a masterful cinematic storyteller. It may occasionally feel manipulative in trying to wring emotions out of the audience, but Spielberg's gift is being able to do this and still leave a viewer utterly engrossed and emotionally involved in the story. He is helped here by a mesmerising performance by Hounsou - he is absolutely riveting in this film from the opening shot. The sequences aboard the slave ships standout as necessarily brutal and horrific moments that really can only capture a snapshot of the suffering so many people went through as a result of slavery, and here there is greater effort by Spielberg to let the images speak for themselves. The rest of the film struggles to match these moments but a great cast lead the audience through the court case that is intriguing throughout both in its impact on the central characters as well as it's wider historical significance.
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RomeroLivesOn says...
8 months ago
Very important subject mishandled by Spielberg and given the Hollywood shine.
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nmahoney416 says...
6 years ago
The opening scene was great, it grabbed my attention right away. The scene where they get taken slaves is brutal too. But besides those scenes this is a slow court drama and not a great one. The acting is pretty good but this is just too long and drags too much.
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ColdStream96
CONTAINS SPOILERS6/10  3 years ago
**THE UGLY: ‘AMISTAD’**

WRITING: 60
ACTING: 75
LOOK: 80
SOUND: 80
FEEL: 55
NOVELTY: 50
ENJOYMENT: 50
RE-WATCHABILITY: 25
INTRIGUE: 30
EXPECTATIONS: 45

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**THE GOOD:**

The opening scene, with the bloody chaos onboard the Amistad in the darkness of night, might very well be More
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
Steven Spielberg took the helm for this rather classy, if very wordy, depiction of the celebrated legal battle that resulted from the mutiny of slaves aboard a Spanish ship in the late 1830s. A timely intervention from the US Navy rescued some of the crew, but then subjected the erstwhile cargo to a More
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