Freedomland

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Darla P 01/06/2024 This movie is busy and unorganized. There are so many different stories going on all at once, it's hard to keep up with the original plot. The cast is strong but even they fall short in this tangled mess of a movie See more jelisije j @jjosifovic 01/26/2022 A movie that could have cut 30 minutes and still send the message they wanted to send. Now the real question what was the actual message of the movie? See more Ethan T 08/13/2021 Freedomland wastes a tasty pairing of Moore and Jackson on a film littered with so many strange, amateurish errors that one wondered who allowed this mess to occur. For goodness sake, Joe Roth's last directing credit before this was Christmas with the Kranks! The editing in some sections is some of the worst that I have seen in any film. Fade transitions showing the age of the film and at least one egregious slow-motion shot, along with a few random melodramatic sound effects, contribute to a notion that this editor should be allowed nowhere near a film studio again without a serious reappraisal. For goodness sake, he worked on Mission: Impossible? What went wrong?! The most climactic scenes are ruined by their overlong dialogue failing to strike any serious chords of originality. Moore gives her all and almost sells it, but too many of the other characters introduce threads and then fail to elaborate upon them in a manner almost matching The Room in ineptitude. The generous two stars, given the criticism so far, remain because Jackson works dependably well and some of the bleakness of the Price's script and its outlook on racial tensions and police brutality land a few hefty blows suggesting the impossibility of underprivileged communities to ever reach peace with governing forces or the police. After this, though, especially with the unsatisfying and frankly asinine central conflict of child kidnapping, praise runs thin. See more 06/11/2021 Decent aim, poor shot. The cast looks solid and the plot sounded interesting but the execution was lacking across the board in this case of squandered potential. See more 11/18/2020 Great cast couldn't do much with this fil. Weaves an unlikely plot from two rather unsavory issues: child abduction and race relations. "Overacting" (Rotten Tomatoes review) is an apt description of the stars performances, with Julianne Moore's role being particularly so: as my attention began to wane toward the end, it seemed there was going to be a scene where she wasn't stuttering and crying, but no, she was on the verge again, was she going to do it!, the tears were coming - but cooler heads prevailed. Fland her character exited the scene. Not only that, but her character takes on this slightly awkward lower-class, white trash, East Coast accent that is not believable. See more steve d 06/25/2020 I think the writer knew what issues they wanted to tackle and then sold it to the actors. They then forgot they needed a story. See more Read all reviews

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