Freedomland
Freedomland
R | 17 February 2006 (USA)
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A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Reviews
Protraph Lack of good storyline.
Cleveronix A different way of telling a story
Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
akis_pagratis Not something you havnt seen before, but a good movie.
Andres-Camara Watching this movie, I wonder if I'm watching a movie or a movie for television, I think I'm watching a movie for television, which is not bad if it's good but it's also not. It has a luxury cast that stays halfway and little more because it is not well worn.Julianne Moore as always seems to me wonderful, I have not seen this woman a bad interpretation. But the rest of the cast, I'm sorry but it does not tell me anything.Julianne Moore as always seems to me wonderful, I have not seen this woman a bad interpretation. But the rest of the cast, I'm sorry but it does not tell me anything.You know quickly where the film is going, the racial issues, what happens is that afterwards it is so dispersed and touches so many things but it does not explain anything that does not catch you in any moment.The last sequence of the film remains, but I imagine that for production issues, it would have to be put.It has a beautiful photograph, yes, it is a photograph that helps you to get into that world, the problem is that the rest takes you out.The address does not tell me anything. She does not get hooked, scatters me, does not know how to make plans that narrate, is not good.A movie to forget
SnoopyStyle Bloodied Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) arrives at the emergency room claiming to be a victim of a carjacking in the black neighborhood. Police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) is assigned the case and she reveals that her son is still in the car. Brenda's brother Danny (Ron Eldard) is a cop from a neighboring town and the outside police force descends on the black town. Soon Lorenzo starts questioning Brenda's story. He recruits Karen Collucci (Edie Falco) and her volunteer group to search for the boy.This tries to be a thriller while tackling some very sensitive racial issues. The problem is that it handles it with no subtlety. It hits the issue with a sledgehammer. There is a good crime mystery here but it gets overwhelmed. It seems like everybody is yelling and nobody is listening. It may be better to introduce Edie Falco earlier in the movie rather than halfway through. It's a frustrating film to watch.
camilla-91 I just sat through this film and feel very cheated. I had the task of bringing home a good thriller for my family and they gave up and went to bed 20 minutes in. I decided to watch till the end in hope that I could justify the rental money, unfortunately I lost out.Julian Moore plays a mother who loses her 4 your old son in a car hijacking and the rest of the film deals with her and Samuel L Jackson searching for him in a ghetto with race rioting going on around them. This film frustrated me. The actors didn't have a good rapport and often the story was incoherent. Julian Moore, who I'll admit is already one of my least favorite actresses,manages to look haggard and flaky but her acting is grinding and really annoying. Save yourself an hour and a half of your life and bi-pass this really really bad film