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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Biography | Drama | History
Rayting:   7.5/10 61K votes
Country: USA
Language: English
Release date: June 17, 2021

Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.

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jamdub-61934 15 March 2021

Daniel Kaluuya an utterly amazing performance! This brotha showed some acting chops here. A must see for Daniel alone, but the director deserves a nod too. The director and screenwriter deserve Oscars for that matter. The director took what could have been a PBS documentary and turned it into movie magic. Now let's tell the story of the Oakland chapter. Same director! The shootout on Magnolia. I was a child 1/2 a block down the street when the shots started flying everywhere and Bobby Hutton was killed.

drednm 17 March 2021

Fmovies: While the acting is good, the deadly pacing kills the drama in this historical look at the Black Panthers and the FBI snitch who helped set up a series of police raids that led to many deaths.

Martin Sheen injects some life into the proceedings as creepy J. Edgar Hoover, but Jesse Plemons is like walking death as the FBI agent who coerces Bill O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) into being a rat.

Daniel Kaluuya practically speaks in tongues and I could decipher only about half of what he said as Fred Hampton, the target of the FBI raids in Chicago's branch of the Panthers.

Violent but not very interesting.

Fella_shibby 13 February 2021

Amazing acting n top notch cinematography.

From the beginning and as the synopsis suggest, we as audiences are already informed about the ending but the real deal is the way it happened in reality, that really shook me up man.

This movie aint par with The Trial of the Chicago 7 as far as entertainment is concerned but it is definitely very informative and made me read about the trials n tribulations the African Americans faced. These fellas are the true champions of everything in life.

fdeveaux11 13 February 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah fmovies. This film could have been much better. Instead of focusing on what made Fred Hampton such a powerful person - his politics, his words, his analysis - we are forced to sit through a bunch of cop-shoutouts and a fairly shallow version of an informant - FBI relationship story that we've seen done better in plenty of other movies.

As for the character of Bill Oneil, who unfortunately becomes the main character of the film, we have no insight into his ideology or his motivations, only that he wants money. The most interesting thing we learn about him is the real footage of the documentary that features at the end - which makes me wonder why I'm not watching a documentary instead. Throughout the film there's nothing about him that makes it believable that he'd be liked, trusted and even integrated as an important person in the Panthers and as a close friend of Fred Hampton's.

Overall, pretty lame

airborne_trooper 13 February 2021

So let's start with the good. The cinematography and period setting is top notch and really puts you in the era. The acting is very good and helps with holding together a porous story.

Now for the bad. I really really wanted to love this movie. But...If you're looking for a biopic of Fred Hampton, this ain't it. Plain and simple. If you're looking for a movie that tells you more than you already knew about an understated important figure in black history, again this ain't it.

What you will get is a movie about an FBI informant who's motives are questionable at best, that happens to have Fred Hampton featured in it. If you're not versed in the names of people in Hampton's inner circle, you will be confused and have a hard time remembering who's who, as characters come and go constantly, with virtually no character development.

The movie is entertaining for the most part as the acting is quite good. But the story itself is all over the place and some scenes are longer than they need to be. You won't know much more about the great Fred Hampton, than you did before you watched this movie. It's too bad because I was waiting for this one.

People will trip over themselves to give this positive marks, but as a student of history and someone who loves a good drama in a period piece, this movie missed a great opportunity for sure.

tylertoth-71980 13 February 2021

I had no idea any of this actually happened, so it's great that a film was made about this. This is a powerful film that I would highly recommend.

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