Mississippi Burning
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Movie Reviews of Mississippi Burning
Movie Review: The film succeeds by being gripping, emotional, and disturbing...
Summary: 4 Stars
Mississippi Burning is set in 1964 when three civil rights activists are murdered in a small town by the Ku Klux Klan... Two of them were white and one of them black...
Based on actual events in Philadelphia, the screenplay centers chiefly on the hostility relationship between the two FBI agents (Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) sent down to the small Mississippi town to seek information about the vanishing of the three victims... Immediately upon their arrival, they are greeted with hostility by the local law enforcement and the town in general...
Dafoe's Ward-- in charge of the case--comes off as the embodiment of everything those men in the south dislike about the "Yankees" who are coming down there commanding them how to act...
Anderson(Hackman), who was once a Mississippi officer himself, has a special feel for how to settle things with Southerners... He uses his charm to win the confidence of the friendly wife of a Klansman deputy, whom he suspects holds the key to unravel the details of the case...
The scenes between McDormand and Hackman are the best of the film... They dramatize how quickly two lonely people can match...
The film succeeds by being gripping, emotional, and disturbing... Alan parker graphically explores the hatred, motivations and mentality that were once flaming through the American society in the 60's.
Movie Review: intrigue, shoking but long
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a type of movies you should watch at least once to make a step towards to getting a comprehensive view at the american cinema or expand your present one if you're one of those who always crave for a real good stuff.
The movie is bit long but it's worth to watch. If you possess some basic knowledge of what was happening during the era of civil rights, you would enjoy seeing the actual based-on-the-true-events scenes and comparing it to the present time. Living in the South and witnessing the black culture that becomes so popular, it has been so unusual to get a snap-shot of some 40 years ago.
Movie Review: Entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
Although loosely based upon the true-life story of the murders of three young civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi in 1964, history gives way to an entertaining crime drama with a superb cast, particularly Gene Hackman, who gives perhaps his best performance ever. It is a compelling, fast-moving story which will doubtless keep the viewer entertained. As a good piece of drama, MB excels. However, for a far more interesting (and factual) version of the story, read Don Whitehead's "Attack on Terror". Enjoy the movie, but view it as drama, not history.Movie Review: Well-acted & well-intentioned, but fundamentally flawed
Summary: 3 Stars
Two FBI agents (Gene Hackman and Willem Defoe) with radically different approaches to their jobs turn a small Mississippi town inside out in their effort to solve the murders of three civil rights workers. The film is well made with a strong sense of place and the acting is uniformly brilliant, but it is fundamentally flawed because of its lack of black characters. This film basically presents the civil rights struggle as the story of white people trying to sort out how they should treat black people. Relegating black characters to being the backdrop for a white dilemma is disrespectful and presents an unbalanced portrait of the situation. Having said that, I must also acknowledge that the film does a good job of presenting a chilling and knowing portrait of white racism as the unfocused and uncomprehending rage that is the result of ignorance, poverty, and self-loathing. Frances McDormand gives a strong, nuanced performance as a shy, beaten down woman who turns out to be the key to breaking the case. Her relationship with Hackman's character is quite touching./Movie Review: a racist america!
Summary: 3 Stars
A racist America!, August 6, 2004
A Kid's Review
One can see the supression of the black people from the first scene. The Documentar reports shot the racist scene of the 60's.
1. The two FBI men like Dafoe and Hackman tried to disolve the problem in the deep south by hunting the KKK members. Though they failed to disolve the problems...The black men are in misery again
2. The two protagonists are white guys and the white guys dominated the roles again,...where are the black heroes in this film?
The white guys on again -> the black men are still in misery!
3. The complicated problems which happened in the racist deep south, did not sorry anyone in the States, many citizens have just seen the tragedy but did not help them. Black men are in misery again.
Could USA be a tolerant State in the future? the answer blows everyone of us.