Amistad (1997)
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Reviews Counted: 56 Fresh: 44 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins
Synopsis: Based on actual events in 1838, AMISTAD is the story of captured African slaves who took over their transport ship in a bloody revolt with the hopes of returning back to their homeland. After the slaves are caught and imprisoned, their leader, Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), unable to understand the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: David H. Franzoni
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Debbie Allen, Colin Wilson
Composer: John Williams
Screenwriter: David H. Franzoni
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Debbie Allen, Colin Wilson
Composer: John Williams
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04/27/07
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06/24/06
Amistad is worth seeing just for people to know about this important story, this moment in history. But from the world's most powerful, successful and famous director, we expect more.
05/26/06
Aiming to instruct and entertain, and often struggling to reconcile these goals, Amistad lacks the subtlety of tone and simplicity of form that made Schindler's List one of Spielberg's very best; here, however, every idea and image are too explicit.
02/13/06
Fortunately, the dry, courtroom banter is interjected with powerful accounts of the violent, inhumane atrocities inflicted on the slaves by Spanish merchants.
12/06/05
Amistad is the telling of an interesting event in American history, but doesn't draw its audience in to the heart of the story.
04/09/05
This is the most straightforward, understated, and powerful big-screen representation of the gospel in recent movie history. And for that, Amistad should be recommended to everyone.
12/06/04
As with Schindler’s List, Spielberg allows his subjects to be remote and somewhat unknowable human beings, creating an air of documentary-like authenticity.
07/19/03
Amistad is the kind of movie that makes a tired topic seem fresh and entertaining again.
05/22/03
Just when you thought you had seen the best movie there is about a historic seagoing vessel, along comes Amistad.
02/08/03
Spielberg's films never lack a certain degree of narrative and visual force, but his tendency toward sentimentality, a strictly antipodal, Good-vs.-Bad conception of character, and an insensitivity to structure have consistently marred his work...
01/10/03
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11/06/02
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Steven Spielberg's engaging, heartfelt and well-made drama delves into a critical incident in the history of slavery in America.
10/15/02
In Amistad, an admirable but disappointing effort...[Speilberg] veers between stoic political correctness and mushy Hollywood platitudes.
06/18/02
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Despite its occasional imperfections...Amistad must be regarded as a monumentally impressive achievement and further proof of Spielberg's ongoing maturation as an artist.
06/05/02
The essential commitment to freedom is so much a part of the story that, at least in this one brief moment, justice triumphed.
04/13/02
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