Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) by Kvthecritic — 20 Feb 2021

This was easily one of my most anticipated films of this year. However, this movie simply left me feeling disappointed. Character development is just underbaked and some parts of the film are flat out boring.

Daniel Kaluuya gives a dedicated performance yes, but not a great one. LaKeith Stanfield's character is criminally left out to dry with no development or reason to how he feels. Sure, it's very interesting to see the divide in black Americans response to the racism around them.

I just wish they would've done something more interesting with it. I do understand that this a hard thing to do since this is a true story, and changing the story too much would be straight up lying. This is just one I'm not going to remember sadly.

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