While the acting is good, the deadly pacing kills the drama in this historical look at the Black Panthers and the FBI snitch who helped set up a series of police raids that led to many deaths.
Martin Sheen injects some life into the proceedings as creepy J. Edgar Hoover, but Jesse Plemons is like walking death as the FBI agent who coerces Bill O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) into being a rat.
Daniel Kaluuya practically speaks in tongues and I could decipher only about half of what he said as Fred Hampton, the target of the FBI raids in Chicago's branch of the Panthers.
Violent but not very interesting.
Martin Sheen injects some life into the proceedings as creepy J. Edgar Hoover, but Jesse Plemons is like walking death as the FBI agent who coerces Bill O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) into being a rat.
Daniel Kaluuya practically speaks in tongues and I could decipher only about half of what he said as Fred Hampton, the target of the FBI raids in Chicago's branch of the Panthers.
Violent but not very interesting.