The Hurricane Reviews

Oscar Worthy

If you ever wondered why Denzel won his best actor Oscar for 'Training Day' which was essentially a bad film, watch this. If you add his performances in 'Cry Freedom' (for example) to this film, you'll realise why Hollywood rectified a long-standing mistake.

An outstanding film

From the subject matter of this film, it might sound like a story you've seen many times before. But don't be put off - Denzel Washington's powerful performance carries this film onto another level. You really feel for him as a man who has never been given a chance in life, and has gone past believing that he ever could be.

This is probably one of the best performances by Denzel, this film portrays the life of real life boxer Rueben Carter and how he was framed for murder. A sure fire classic.

Wow!

When you go to the cinema to see a movie, you want to feel something and learn a few things. Hurricane delivers in all aspects, Denzel Washington deserved an Oscar for this role, the man is an amazing actor.

The movie depicts the life of a promising boxer whose dreams of being world greatest

were foiled due to the hate he felt for being coloured by a top police officer.

This is a must-see movie, it should be in your list of "10 things to do before I die".

Why didn't Denzel Washington get an Oscar for his magnificent role in this movie? For me, it was far better than his performance in Training Day!

Absolutely Brilliant, well written, well acted, enthralling story. Denzil Washington is supberb as Hurricane!

Hell of a story

Literally. A story of a sickening injustice and I won't say whether it has a happy ending or not, rent it and find out. Occasionally gets close to over-sentimentality but manages to stave it off and instead delivers a powerful, emotional and engrossing dramatisation of the story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter. Interesting narrative structure and a brilliant performance from Denzel keep you interested for the considerable length of the movie and there's more than one occasion where the eyes might start getting a bit moist...if you're a sentimental old fool like me that is.

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Ignore the facts if fiction makes a better story

If the makers of this film had decided to make it about an entirely fictitious black boxer who, because of bigotry, etc. is wrongfully imprisoned and this movie had been the result I would say it is a pretty good. However, this movie is presented as a fairly accurate portrayal of the life and treatment of a real man: Rubin Carter. To claim that this movie is even 'based' on fact is a stretch. The real Rubin Carter was a very nasty piece of work by most accounts and probably did commit the crimes of which he was convicted (the movie mixes up fact and fiction of the events to such a degree that the viewer is entirely mislead). For instance, the movie claims that Carter was convicted by an all white jury. This is simply not true! There is plenty of real prejudice and injustice to be challenged in the world without peddling this sort of irresponsible, inflamatory nonsense.

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Not bad. Did'nt quite follow it but justice was done in the end. Good story line and good acting.

Great

I rented this film with a little apprehension, however this was misguided. Washington puts in yet another sterling performance as the former boxing champion, wrongly convicted of murder. Leave aside your personal feelings on films of this nature & pretend it's not a true story, it is a well made film withsome great acting.