CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

jsauri I frequently caught myself pulled in to the location settings and music, working together to create an immersive feeling. However, Nate Parker is not a talented actor, writer, nor director. All of his contributions lessened this movie. The overall quality and tone of this movie would be excellent for a middle school project, but lacks any real perspective on the events transpiring. The white slave owners come off as more of villains in a 70s blacksploitation movie, than the institutionalized evil they represent. The lack of substance is alluded to in the title itself: an attempt to link this work to something older and more infamous. It tries to assume a place in the debate by namedropping, rather than offering any ideas of its own.

jhdw Had he just been humble and not done any interviews in the midst of the young lady committing suicide as a result of years of trauma from her ordeal that involved him and another roommate....he might have had an Oscar nomination. Instead, he chose not to listen to Oprah and did press. He came off arrogant, insensitive and bragged about his acquittal. He should have had Gabrielle Union, Aja Naomi King plenty of others to promote the movie but he was too busy feeling himself.I just feel sorry for the young lady that committed suicide. College campus rape cases are met with so much bias and they make the victim out to be the villain.I also feel sorry for the actors who were robbed of a unique opportunity to have their craft appreciated in this movie.Birth of a Nation was an opportunity to showcase a moment in this nation's history and more importantly Black history. I'm disappointed it didn't do better at the box office. But thanks to Mr. Parker's ego...well at least it broke even...kinda

Tad Pole . . . BIRTH OF A NATION (aka, WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE GRAPES OF WRATH) that the ONLY way to deal with Urban Unrest back in the 1800s was a thorough axle greasing (which gave rise to the expression, "The squeaky wheel gets greased"). Now Director Benny Boom carries this theme forward with another True American Story, ALL EYEZ ON ME. Mr. Boom makes it clear that the protagonist of this Tragic Tale emerged from a deep gene pool of UltraViolent Urban Guerillas, not unlike Parker's earlier Nat Turner Doomed Hero. Abraham Lincoln was 22 years old when Nat got greased, causing this Great Emancipator to found the G.O.P. on a Repatriation Platform. Though as President, Abe was gunned down like NAACP Leader Tupac Shakur, Grateful Americans carved a giant replica of him on Mount Rushmore for his Great Idea. ALL EYEZ ON ME carries Parker's saga of Nat forward nearly 200 years to prove that America is NOT a safe or suitable environment for transplants with the characteristics of Nat and Tupac. It shows Tupac causing the death of an six-year-old from his own clan in a public park, while committing numerous other felonies against his misplaced cohorts. It shows some guy named "Shug" also engaging in countless violent felonies, as well as a stray prison-yard murder as another example of fraternal warfare. The U.S. Government is justly criticized for wasting nearly half its budget to lock up nearly all the Urban Males, and many of their Moms, such as Tupac's. Leader Trump MUST redirect a small fraction of this "corrections" budget to implement Abe Lincoln's own Grand Correction plan of repatriating a kidnapped, hostage population to the more suitable environment from which it sprang. Leader Trump should start with the Will and Jada Smith Crime Syndicate, which the ALL EYEZ ON ME whistle-blowers finger for Tupac's slaying, if not Shug's. The Streets of Chicago have been stained with ENOUGH blood, let alone L.A., Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, etc. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of Leader Trump's Muslim Deportation Proposal Today, so it seems unlikely to scotch an idea adopted from the also revered Abe Lincoln which will curtail any more of this ALL EYEZ ON ME-style UltraViolence.

logcabnnut The movie was just "ok". Pretty much what I expected in a "slave movie"- brutal whippings, white males raping at will, and a lot of turning a blind-eye rationalizations by the "good ol white folk." What's "typical" is the response from certain reviewers (read:white) who seem hung up on Nat Turner's actions rather than the REASON why he acted the way he did. These reviewers are aghast that the real rebellion resulted in the deaths of "innocent" white women and children of slave holding families YET they conveniently sidestep the feelings of a slave having known that 'massah' and any other white male could sexually denigrate his wife, sister, mother, or preteen child at any time. It's almost like white males are supposed to be "entitled" to do whatever they felt and if someone who is impacted "reacts"- like Nat Turner- then that person is at fault. In real life Nat Turner may have killed white women and children in the rebellion but these same "so-called innocent" white people didn't have any heartburn over the inhumane brutality suffered ad nauseam by black women and children. Based on many reviews seems like the same savage primitive attitudes of many whites haven't changed in the past 185+ years since the events of this movie.