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Title: Powerful
Review: MALCOLM X is a powerful and compelling biography, chronicling the struggle, the rise and the tragic fall of a great American individual. Denzel Washington SHOULD have received his Oscar for this performance. It wasn't anything racist because the Academy normally bestows Oscars to actors for the WRONG performances (Al Pacino for SCENT OF A WOMAN? Paul Newman for THE COLOR OF MONEY? Forget about it!).The only real problem I had was with the way Spike Lee chose to end the film.He spends three hours telling the very raw human story of how Malcolm X lived and died--and then tacks on what feels like a recruitment film that worships the image of the man, the kind of deification that might have made Malcolm uneasy. And made me think the filmmakers may have missed the point.Still, a great biography.
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