Amistad Review.

The title of the movie I am reviewing is "Amistad" made in 1997 and directed by Steven Spielberg. The two actors I liked the most were Dijmon Hounsou and Anthony Hopkins. The movie time set is around 1839. The film starts off on board the ship Amistad then going to America where it ends.

The Movie is about a slave ship called Amistad and the slaves fight for freedom. All the way from fighting the crew of the ship to fighting for there rights in court again and again.

I really like John Adams in this movie who was played by Anthony Hopkins. His performance and just the way he captured the wisdom of his character made it look believable to me. Such as when he is in the court room speaking giving a heart moving speech to let Cinque and his people free. Cinque is played by Dijmon Hounsou who plays in another movie and one of my favorite movies "Gladiator" and did a great job in this movie as well. I do think it could have been better, however it was still very good. He shows a lot of emotion when talking to Baldwin tells him "What kind of a land is this where you almost mean what you say? Where laws almost work?"

In the film the lighting was good as far as I am concern, However I do think it could have been improved. I think the music was fitting for the films mood and setting. Some of the effects are a little out of place such as with the ships and such. Or just little changes from scene to scene. I thought the costumes were fine, but a officer in the movie is wearing the wrong out fit for his character and it is mixed up as well.

I think this movie did a good job in portraying the events of the Amistad and the slaves with only a few small down falls here and there. I learned a lot from this film about the ship Amistad itself and the history of the slaves that were aboard it. It caused a domino effect that led to civil war with the North ageist the South. It is a good history movie as well as a good drama.

Now two major people in history around the films time line were President Lincoln and Harriet Stowe. President Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, lead the country through the civil war and was assassinated after the war. Harriet Stowe wrote the book called Uncle Tom's Cabin which enraged many abolitionist and set the country even closer to civil war. When President Lincoln meet her they clam he said" So you're are the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!"