A propaganda puff piece about a black male protagonist killed by a white police officer. The protagonist is a good boy with all of his bad qualities redeemed and justified with some action or promise he makes. Actions or promises that were made up for the sake of the film, whereas the protaganist was actually on parole when he died after serving a sixteen month prison sentence for gun possession. An impressive performance by Michael B. Jordan helps move this along and it’s a well done yet manipulative film. Executively produced by Harvey Weinstein and created solely as Oscar bait, but it failed miserably.
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