andievegas This film makes a mass murderer look like a saint. It is a revisionist look at a man that did butcher children. I don't blame the real life man for revolting but come-on they make him seem like a saint. Then again the man behind camera acts like in real life is a man of questionable integrity!Nat Turner the real life rebellion leader is revered by many to this day. I will never be one of them! In fact I will never see a film that Nate Parker is in. His butchering of history is a crime

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.

beorhouse I'll qualify my review by saying that I was raised in the Deep South by my parents, who were prejudiced Caucasians, and that because of their influence there was always a part of me that felt we were better than people of darker skin tones. That part of me didn't completely die until I was already in my 30s, and I would go as far as to say that a large percentage of Southern "white" children, especially those born before the latter two decades of the 20th century (I was born in 1963), had prejudice to fight off, rethink, and come to terms with. I have heard horror stories from other Southern "whites" that I will not repeat here, but let it suffice to say that a hatred of Blacks is alive and well, if diminishing. I hope it's diminishing anyway. So, what about this film? 12 Years A Slave was riveting, but this one did it for me in a way that no other slavery film has to date--and I've seen most of them, and a few handfuls of Civil War films to boot. The take-away from films like this one is that there is really nothing to fear from the "other." Now I do realize that European Caucasian culture somehow developed the idea centuries ago--Elizabethan times if not long before (where Blacks were called Blackamoors)--that Caucasians are somehow more intelligent than people born on the African continent. They claim they get this information from the Bible, but I have actually studied that book from cover to cover for nearly 50 years, and nowhere in it does it say that those of the Hamitic line are less of anything than those of the Japhetic or Semitic lines. So Ham made a mistake 45,000 years ago and had sex with his own mother while they were all drunk? So what. The child's name was Canaan, and he was born perverted and cursed. Ham was never cursed. Yes, he was shunned by his two brothers, but there was no curse lain on him for his actions. And, even if there had been, is this to say that everyone allegedly of his bloodline would be cursed. What we are really talking about here is pseudo- intellectual bull malarkey drummed up by European "whites" so they could have somebody work for their lazy royal arses. After all, as we moved into the Colonial era, there were very few Caucasians left to tend the fields of the wealthy. You see, they had all been sent off to various wars and killed. What to do? Enslave Africans, of course. All that said, there is no support in all of the Bible for slavery after Saint Paul begins to dismantle the slavery system by introducing a societal leveler, being Christianity--where, ideally and the way it should work, you don't get to be rich and you never have to be poor. And you certainly never have to be a slave--except a willing slave to Jesus, which is quite a different thing altogether. When I am crucified in that particular system, it is my choice, not the choice of some inconsistent and often sadistic master. God help every soul who has died with hatred in their hearts for the Black man and woman. The Judgment is still yet to come.

Michael Ledo This is a tear-jerking bio-pic of Nat Turner, a slave minister who lead an unsuccessful rebellion. The film starts with his anointing as a child and ends with Nina Simone singing "Strange Fruit". This is another installment of "man's inhumanity to man" series inspired by our history on this planet.With a successful slave revolt in Haiti, slave owners feared the same in the US. Nate Parker gives us an excellent performance, although "12 Years a Slave" was a better film. The original film "Birth of a Nation" was the first film to be shown at the White House. It's Reconstruction message brought about protest and a resurgence of the KKK. This film is only connected in name only.The whipping and killing scenes were brief and less graphic than what they could have been. We do get the idea that men were whipped and women were raped and beaten also.Guide: Brief nudity (Aja Naomi King)