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K B Simply beautiful, warming, frustrating, and immaculate. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/16/24 Full Review Audience Member Fighting for the right to liveThe performance by Denzel Washington in this Spike Lee movie was very effective, despite expectations. The horrors of the reality that this is based on a true story are troubling, but the story and plot deliver us through the telling of a story about the problems of society and the need to remain strong through the roughest of them. I saw this movie while I was expelled from my high school for a fistfight which happened in the hallway. It taught me a lot about life at the time, and Denzel's performance is great. The soundtrack is amazing as well, and a lot of people pooled together to tell this true story. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Denzels best performance of all time and one of the best Biopic's ever made, very powerful. I would say this, also, to be director Norman Jewison's best film Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review dave s By no stretch of the imagination is Norman Jewison's The Hurricane a perfect movie. For one, the secondary characters all seem a bit shallow. What made Detective Della Pesca (Dan Hedaya) the hateful and vindictive man that he was? Who exactly are these three Canadians who came to the rescue of Ruben Carter and what the hell is their relationship to each other? Another problem is an abundance of stilted dialogue that manages to suck the energy out of a lot of the scenes. However, the story itself is fascinating and Denzel Washington gives a powerful performance as the wrongly convicted ‘Hurricane' Carter. Washington's performance alone makes The Hurricane worth watching. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member As a film “The Hurricane” is affecting enough, but despite Carter’s innocence in the crime that put him in prison, the filmmakers ignore Carter’s violent incidents while on bail and present invented persecutions from fictional characters. The film would have been interesting enough if done honestly. Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 04/12/21 Full Review Audience Member Uplifting story of US boxer falsely imprisoned for a murder. Washington is superb in the lead as Ruben Carter. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/06/21 Full Review Read all reviews

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