Don't listen to the critics. Accept what goes on in the film and you'll get it. The film is loosely based on real-life cases where people were held in modern slavery in the U.S., such as the story of Mae Louise Miller, who escaped captivity in the 1960s after being born into a hidden slavery operation in Mississippi. And for that reason it is good and necessary for all to watch it.

🍀 4.1/10 Maybe I missed it but what was the parachute guys deal like he just lands and for all he knows he gives this random guy his lighter huh???. It’s way too short for any good development but it does showcase a lot of great 70s style and a great performance from Keke Palmer. But it’s definitely overshadowed by the lackluster flow. Frank kinda the MVP wish it was a little longer to fully develop his character.

Could've been better. I feel like that was barely partially of an experience based true story. The fact that she was a slave but didn't know what a fridge was, a 온라인카지노추천 was, or didn't know the taste of a bologna sandwich but she knew what Bologna was kinda blew things out of proportion. As if she stayed cooped up in a box or something for her whole life, was the situation but it wasn't. She knew how to ready because of her reading to her slave owners did help her adapt to a new era. It just seemed really fake, all of it, as if this movie/film was made without patience. Makes you question what was the real reason behind making this specific film vs all the other films such as Django that actually seemed more in tune with the old times rather than this one. What was the message? What was the point? The way she put herself together when going to rescue everyone else left behind seemed as though it wasn't hard for her to fit right in with the new era, unless she took in what was presented from the 온라인카지노추천 shows that she only watches for maybe a quick second. The movie could of been longer, there wasn't a lot of details either. I did find enjoyment to the old fashioned scenery of him home.

Great movie, sound track and phenomenal acting!!!

I think this movie should be seen by all. The writing, acting and content is very much worth the watch.

it is a suprisingly fun and good movie, especially if you haven't read the synopsis, you start out thinking you are watching some periodic feature wich turns into some awesome vengeance movie. The story is ok, they wanna put some morality in it, and that is ok, it isn't to heavy on the heart either, but if you are a fan of blackxplotation movies, then this is the one to see, it honors all the greats of the 70's, with Pam Grier at the top of that list.

As a writer myself, I thought it was a very great movie, from being to end... should have been a bit more brutal towards the end..... but, we are a forgiving people.

I thought this movie rocked.

Storyline was there to make a good movie. But after that it all went downhill. I'm 50% finished watching it and it's not getting any better. Acting poor at best

Wow! Within 5 minutes of this movie I was crying at the injustice and insanity of the "ruling class". Superb acting and explosive💥ending! World class.

this movie had so much potential, but didn't deliver.

Some great ideas never quite come together thanks to a lackluster script.

The movie actors were good but the story line was lame. Director Krystin Ver linden would have done better by giving the money to an educational system than trying to tell a story that isn't true. If it was true than do a documentary to expose it instead of trying to make a buck,

The film had some short comings in that I would have watched it play out for 2 1/2 hours to see the story line developed out. Having said; I LOVE THIS MOVIE! It was everything I wanted Antebellum to be. Miss Keke Palmer was amazing! More of her please!

Smh don’t tell how they really ended up there. Parts had to be missing. Naw don’t waste your time.

Eye Opener.... Excellent movie 🍿, A must see, can't wait for the sequel.

The poor critic rating is a reflection of who the critics are. This movie is Black excellence.

Serious topic but kind of unbelievable plot, just was not very enjoyable or a movie I learned something from

Alice is a terrible movie. It's crude, obvious, badly written and filmed so awkwardly that it loses the momentum of its biggest surprise. And yet . . . and yet! Underneath all of the amateurish nonsense lies a potentially good movie. The film is the latest product of the new black visibility but one would be hard-pressed to find a film that undoes the goals of that noble effort. It was directed by first time director Krysten Ver Linden whose notion of the black experience (based on this script) is not really a narrative so much as a checklist of both slave epics and blaxploitation movies. It's a mixture of genres that never bother to explain themselves and are resolved so conveniently that they cut off before they are even finished. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me dig into why this movie doesn't work. The film starts off in what looks like a side-quel to 12 Years a Slave. We meet Alice (Keke Palmer), a slave working on a plantation down in Georgia during the old Antebellum days. She is the favorite of the plantation overseer, a sweaty old bastard named Bennett (Jonny Lee Miller) who keeps Alice close to him and even taught her to read so she could read books to him at night before he rapes her – which is only suggested in the dialogue. If you're seeing shades of the story of Patsey and Epps in 12 Years a Slave, then you're on the right track. The problem with this movie is that Ver Linden wants to deal with slavery without dealing with slavery. The foulest stench of this chapter of history is left quietly off the table. For instance, the n-word (which you would expect) is left out in favor of the word "domestics." And the violence both sexual and otherwise are pitched at the level of your average cop show. This director seems to want to have slavery but never deal with it in all it's brutality. She seems to have missed the point that omitting the grimmest details of slavery is bringing shame to the greatest blight on our country's history. But, alas, it only gets worse from here. If you've seen the trailer than you've already been privy to the film's biggest surprise. And if you haven't then I'll issue a hearty spoiler warning. Alice escapes the plantation and while running through the woods, runs right out onto a semi-busy highway. In a move that also didn't work for Shamalan, she runs right into the modern era. It's 1973 and after she is nearly flattened by a delivery truck, the helpful driver named Frank (Common) picks her up and drives her to the hospital. How Alice got to 1973 is never really explained, nor is how she gets back. The motivations and helpful ironies that help her traverse the busy world of the 1970s might as well have come with a diagram. Frank takes her back to his place and it is convenient that while digging through his things, that he use to be a Black Panther and that the first box that she opens among his things contains clippings of only the most important events in recent black history. It is also convenient how well she is able to adapt despite having no understanding of television, telephones, automobiles or institutions. When she makes a sudden transformation from frightened "domestic" to an Angela Davis-like revolutionary, you might wonder if you've missed something. The problem is that there is no glue to tie any of this together. No explanation of how or why anything is happening. No connective tissue that pulls Alice into the 20th century. It's frustrating. There are more holes in this script than a block of swiss cheese. That's a shame because there is an idea here. Ver Linden seems to want to get to the next point without ever having to work for it. I can give her points for a level of ambition, it's the execution that gives me a headache. Let's put it this way, she was the winner of the Directors-to-Watch prize at the Palm Springs Film Festival in January, which basically just proves that the voting body is just as confident as everyone else that she's capable of better films than this.

Very enjoyable movie with a twist. Definitely recommend