ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Directed By ...Regina King
Screenplay By...Kemp Powers
The film is a fictional story of a night in Miami where Jim Brown; Sam Cooke; Cassius Clay; and Malcom X meet up.
The actors in this film...Here they are:
Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcom X
Eli Goree as Cassius Clay
Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown
Leslie Odom Jr as Sam Cooke
They are all just wonderful.
The film works as almost a play on a Broadway Stage. Regina King keeps 90 percent of the film in a small motel room making the film feel intimate, like we are flies on the wall listening to conversations we are not suppose to be listening to. You also get a feeling it was a difficult shoot while filming these big gentleman in this small enclosure, there must have not been much room for movement. With the four wonderful performances and King behind the camera it kinda works.
The screenwriter, even though its fiction, gives a chance to see the personalities of these well known figures.
Still I kept going back to....its not true. It made the film feel a bit odd. Taking real people and then putting words in their mouths.
Did Malcom try to manipulate Clay that way?
Did Malcom bust on Cooke that much because white people like his music?
Would Jim Brown care that much about the other three?
I am just saying this may be just tension and rhetoric to make a film...this to me felt odd. Again putting words in their mouths.
I will give 3 1/2 stars out of 5 One Night In Miami, a well acted and well done film that really has no basis. It just feels odd.
From The Shadows thanks for your time.
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