Has anybody here seen it and have an honest review?

Yeah, Davis is a great actor and the trailer is pretty boss, so I might just take the risk and see the film. I think it's gonna get panned by audiences regardless of actual quality. I first started paying attention to the film when somebody called it the "African 300," and I thought, "Well, geez, I like 300." Ever since then, accusations (assumptions?) that the film won't be historically accurate haven't bothered me; it's not like Miller's comic or Snyder's film cared, and look how that turned out: awesome.

THAT WAS NOT THE QUESTION.

To be honest, this wasn't really the measured, unbiased review by somebody who had seen the film that I was hoping to get out of this thread.

Yeah, that was roughly the impression I was getting, too - that it was a large number of people just low-rating it despite having not actually seen it yet.

Still, critical consensus often gives bad films a good name - especially on RT where a film that squeaks by with a "pass" from too many critics gives a mediocre, warmed-over-garbage movie a "98% fresh!" rating just because it's a "YES/NO" system. Anyway, I just thought I'd probe a bit and see if anybody had some actual intelligent intel.

How's the action scenes? How is Davis' performance? And do you regret buying the movie ticket (I assume you saw it in a theatre?)

Thanks!

This film is historically inaccurate and it glorifies slave traders, all this for the sake of "diversity and inclusion".

JoeyReview and Allaby give me what seem like measured responses to the film.

But, yes, I know there are a lot of trolls about.

I appreciate this site for not being overly liberal like Reddit but you unfortunately get the exact opposite. It can get nauseating from board to board.

I'm not that big on Rotten Tomatoes either, for exactly that reason. It's a guidemark, but it's not necessarily accurate. There's always the critic/audience divide, too, where critics tend to like high-minded arthouse stuff and audiences are often just as happy watching something CGI go "boom". I appreciate art and entertainment, so I don't trust either score. That's without getting "politics" into it.

As far as IMDB goes, I loved the message boards (which is why I'm here) so I try to avoid heading over there and giving them another view. I know I'm a drop in the bucket, but I just don't want to support the site anymore. I'm not campaigning to take them out or anything, I just want to personally avoid it, if possible.

I've gotten some reasonable reactions with this post.

Thanks. I'm leaning towards doing that: waiting for the "home release".

A lot of action movies are too long these days. I blame Lord of the Rings. Those are fantastic movies with huge runtimes that are justified, but I think they opened the door for movie studios to start greenlighting three hour James Bond movies, and I don't think they usually need to be that long.

That's a very helpful review!