Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

coronapizza I was a young man when this all happened, I remember many of the news clips that Mr. Roger Guenveur Smith and Mr. Lee have skillfully woven into this POWERFUL biography of a man that was demonized by the "system" both economic and political. The real tragedy is all of Mr. Newton's issues are even more relevant today. Now the cry is not just from African Americans, it is now a call from all people from all over the world, the 99% that are not part of the 1%.What seemed like a very reasonable requests in 1968 today seems like distant dreams to many. What were they? He wanted Full employment, decent housing, Justice instead of criminal justice, Good Education, Stop killing our people. Newton talks about the "slave mentality" which today has become the employment philosophy demanded by Wall Street. No Union, no contract, work in fear, things have gotten much worse since 1968, Mr. Smith has done a masterful job of capturing and perpetuating Huey Newton's work, which has now become the work all of the 99% , OWS, . One can only ask how the world would be today if white America would have listened and supported what he was trying to do. This is a sharp criticism of today's society in the form of a historical documentary. It will offend some and anger others. But for the few who can endure the pain and guilt. There are some real nuggets of truth being conveyed. Try to listen, and learn. A true work of love and conviction, Mr. Smith poured is own soul into the work and Mr. Lees genius captured it and made it work. Well done gentlemen.

Milton Green Not only is this a great glimpse into the life of an extraordinary complex black revolutionary, but this is was masterfully written and played. Roger Smith gives a performance of a lifetime. I amazes me how is Roger Smith is able to portray Newton as a charismatic yet derelict leader, author, and theorist. It is a shame that Smith isn't being more recognized for his hard work and talent. For one man to possess this much talent and not be a mainstay in the entertainment industry is beyond me. Kudos to Spike Lee for bring this play to the small screen. Spike brings many visual elements to a stage play with one man sitting primary in one stop the entire time. It can be easy to become board when watching a performance with a stationary figure, but Lee is able to capture the viewers attention with vivid images and camera angles.

VoteForTheLeastWorst ====================================================== This one man show is excellent and had me enraptured the whole time. I love Spike Lee's use of newsreel footage. Roger's acting was wonderful. I am sure it's not easy to pull off the accent. I am amazed how someone can keep a story like that straight. I would forget what I was doing! --------------------------------------------------------------------- I think what comes across in the end is sadness. And it's a sadness we all have no matter where we come from. That everything in life boils down to the inevitable. We all die. We are not greater than each other. Whether our struggle is within, or from forces outside, we cannot fight being human. So let's stop fighting each other. ======================================================

healnghanz I have never seen a performance of such rich intensity in a one man show. The actor became Huey P Newton, brought back to life, became him, alive and living as him now, not as a history of him, but actually is him. You are challenged by him, and in his interaction with the audience, you see people being moved, no shocked out of their lethargy, and back to the essence of the dream that the black power movement represented. The black power movement that I was never allowed to see. Through the filtered media, in which we are spoon fed half a dozen stories a day that fit some kind of prescription for complacency and helpless outrage designed to keep us watching but doing nothing, Huey sucked on a Kool, chain smoking them as he spits out bullets of truth like tears and laughter. You feel the tragedy of his loss, which is our loss. And its an outrage that I never got to know him. He talks about the fact that the FBI felt that it wasn't the guns that were the main problem with the black panther party, but when they started to feed the poor, that was when they were really considered to be really dangerous. That had to be stopped. this show contains a thousand of these stories, that tickle and lacerate you, they revise your history. he slaps you in your face and you are so grateful to be awake and alive. when he cries you cry for him, for you and for everyone that missed out on what was trying to be accomplished. Martin Luther King wasn't the whole story of the civil rights movement. If it were, then how come his death was followed by the mass incarceration of black people in this country, and the crack epidemic, and the implosion of the inner city and its schools. Whoever shot Huey , it wasn't a drug dealer, no you know who it was. You know. The waited, they bided their time and they took him out. WE took him out because he was right, and when he became right and true it became intolerable. In our society, the truth needs to be destroyed because the truth ushers in change, and when change comes in, and the lights go on, the people making billions and trillions off of the misery of others will do anything to prevent that change from happening. Thats why we are looking to burn oil at the moment we understand global warming. Thats why we are pretending to create democracy in Iraq. We wont tackle the real issue of finding alternative energy. We don't have the courage to create full employment and the result is that we have given our destiny over to countries like china who makes deals to provide slave labor to transnational corporation's like walmart so that we lose all our jobs in exchange for cheaper and cheaper good. Our lives are disintegrating, and our politicians are as morally bankrupt as they are expert in manipulating our fears. We have replaced our factories with prisons. Higher efficiency means cheaper goods but meaningless service jobs at MacDonald's. We are in a state of perpetual undeclared war so that there is a rationale for watching everyone. We are turning, imperceptibly, into what the soviet union was. We live in gated communities that are not unlike versions of feudalistic states back in the middle ages. soon walled cities will be back with us. 40 million people have no insurance while doctors make half a million dollars a year. hospitals are going broke but they pay their executives half a million dollars a year. we spend 63 billion dollars to fix up new Orleans but the people are still living in the dark while halliburton fixes pipes, not people. the black homeless people from that disaster cant get jobs rebuilding their city because the clean up companies will only hire illegal aliens who are dirt cheap. Huey P Newton is not dead. He lives on. He lives on every time we get outraged at what is happening here in America. Wake up, the walls are crumbling around you. Huey! Huey!We are Huey! Remember what the old African said. You is We.