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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302787559 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6302787556 Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: February 16, 1994 Running Time: 201 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 18, 1992 Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington, from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as "Detroit Red" to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. Do the Right Thing climaxed with the photographic images of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King engulfed by flames of rage; Malcolm X explores the genesis and evolution of that rage over Malcolm's lifetime, and how these two great figures--held up to the public as polar-opposites within the African American human rights movement (King for nonviolent civil disobedience, Malcolm for achieving equality "by any means necessary")--were each essential to the agenda of the other. Lee careens from the hedonistic ebullience of Malcolm's early days to the stark despair of prison, from his life-changing conversion to Islam to his emergence as a dynamic political leader--all with an epic sweep and vitality that illuminates personal details as well as political ideology. Angela Bassett is also terrific as Malcolm's wife, Betty Shabazz. --Jim Emerson Description: Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington (the New York, Boston and Chicago Film Critics' choice as 1992's Best Actor) and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader. "One of the decade's best and most important films." (Arch Campbell, WRC-TV/Washington D.C.) Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Man of Vision Struck Down 20th CenturyI was not an avid follower of this man, but some of his ideals should have been scrutinized for a better community amongst the people mainly African Americans. He was a man of integrity especially with family life. His followers were not as strong minded as he just as those in MLK's time. Those supposed followers reacted to certain aspects of their ideas I believe, just to announce that they were a part of a group with some power. The followers did not fully understand ... Read More Rating: - Buy this movieThis is a very good biography of Malcolm X that follows his Autobiography with some exceptions. Denzel is the man. Rating: - very good Malcom x movieIts the best movie I have ever watched. very clear and easy to shift through.will encourage any potential buyer to go for it. Rating:  - Flawed masterpieceI am a huge fan of the book, but the movie has so many flaws that it left me hungry for a better film. The good: The acting by Denzel Washington is great. He brings life to a man that most of us knew only as an angry man. His smile and spirit (and almost dead on physical similarity to Malcolm) brought so much to humanize him. Spike Lee couldn't have cast the main role any better and he was responsible for writing a great likable living Malcolm. It was also nice to see Ernest Thomas aka Roger ... Read More Rating: - Read The Book!!!I love Malcolm, I love Spike, I love Denzel...I grew up on the street Malcolm was born on, in North Omaha, Pinkney Street, BUT...the movie is lacking...Read The Book!!! It is a revelation. |
