Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Living the Wholesome Life I loved this movie! I am so thankful for people like William Wilberforce who see wrongs in society and do whatever it takes to right them. Talking points - How did William Wilberforce help change our world for the better? If you knew you could succeed what causes would you embrace and champion? What can you do to fight for a cause you believe in this year?Warning - Unfortunately there are some very low-cut dresses in this film. It's not a big part of the film, but it is there. If this movie just didn't have that I would have rated it a 10.

Irishchatter I watched this film because I thought this would be all about the well known song "Amazing Grace" and that it was a musical. However it wasn't the case at all, it was really about a man who has a goal in stopping the black slave trade in Britain. I was glad to have seen Benedict Cumberbach involved in this, this was even way before he starred in the well known TV series "Sherlock". He still looks the same nowadays lol!Then comes why I think this film was boring. The reason why it was boring because I didn't understand what the characters were gabbing on about even with a political view. It's like if you haven't an interest in politics, you are pretty much screwed because they would be using words that we normally don't use y'know.I am giving this another 2 stars as I really liked Ioan Gruffudd's performance of "Amazing Grace". He is quite a good singer for an actor, I'm just disappointed that this wasn't a great film to follow!

Python Hyena Amazing Grace (2006): Dir: Michael Apted / Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Rufus Sewell, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Benedict Cumberbatch: Overwhelming and beautiful portrayal of God's grace upon those burdened with difficulties. In this case the subject at hand is slavery and the struggle for one political individual with a conscience to break the slave trade. Set in the 1800's Ioan Gruffudd heads the fight against slave trade but discovers quickly that the battle isn't an easy one although he has his supporters as well as his oppressors. Director Michael Apted is backed by tremendous production and costume design that convincingly portray the time period. Apted is the appropriate director for this project having made Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorillas in the Mist. This ranks as one of his greatest achievements backed with a production that backs the periods. Gruffudd does an outstanding job as one man attempting to influence many against hardship. In supporting roles are Rufus Sewell as a clergymen who approaching Gruffudd regarding the issue. Plus strong veteran performances by Albert Finney and Michael Gambon whom also sense that this issue will be a dire journey to complete as well. Tremendous production highlights the appeal and underscores the core message, which regards freedom and the ability to sense God's grace at hand. Score: 10 / 10

wrs10 Looks like, according to others, that this film was made in the old Hollywood tradition of never letting the facts stand in the way of a good story. No matter, it captures the atmosphere of the struggle in spirit and if it spurs one to use Google to learn the details properly so much the better.The film fails to explain a few details, such as why his proposal was passed nearly unanimously in 1807, nearly passed 20 years earlier - but nothing much in between. Answer - war, or the immediate threat of war, with French resulting in the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805. The film did explain that any British withdrawal from the trade would just allow the French and others to fill the resulting vacuum. No gain there but after the French and Spanish fleets were destroyed n 1805 there was no chance of any vacuum being created. The potential costs of banning the trade dropped sharply.Again, the film was a bit vague about distinguishing between abolishing the trans-Atlantic trade in slaves and abolishing slavery itself in the West Indies. That took another generation and another revolution - the railways - to enable that.The struggle for Parliamentary Reform had been going on just as long. It had been opposed as being a risk too far - look at what happened during the French Revolution. However in 1830 a railway between Manchester and Liverpool was opened. A few months later a riot broke out near the line in Liverpool. Word was passed to an army barracks, also near the line, on the outskirts of Manchester. A train was commandeered, filled with troops and sent rapidly on its way to Liverpool. The troops delivered, riot cleared - all within 2 hours!!! A year earlier it would have taken 2 days!!! With the balance of power shifting so sharply in favour of the forces of order resistance to Parliamentary Reform weakened so much that it was finally achieved by 1832 - and the new Parliament finally voted for the abolition of slavery itself in 1833 (although it took a few years to be fully rolled out). Cause and effect.(Trivia: The Duke of Clarence depicted in the film had his mistress housed in the same road that Boris Karloff was born. Is that why so many cinematic liberties were taken with his character?)