Harriet ★ 1/2

This review may contain spoilers.

Reviewed on Fresh Hop Cinema 145.

This movie is a MESS. I can't believe how much I disliked it. The writing was SO unbelievable, the historical fudging of events and figures actually made me mad, and almost all of the acting was incredibly over-the-top (not you Cynth. You're great. Also you, Leslie Odom Jr. Sickass performance). 
*
*
*
I feel like the pitch meeting for this movie was; 

Lemmons: "Hey, you guys know how the story of Harriet Tubman isn't that interesting?"

Board: "Sure, sure, sure."

Lemmons: "Well what if we took all of her tenacity as a brave woman escaping slavery and instead of chalking it up to being a badass, gave her a superpower to see into the future?"

Board: "Okay.... you mean like, a metaphor?"

Lemmons: "No no. A literal superpower where she has visions."

Board: "Well no one is going to believe that.... unless we say that it's literally God speaking to her."

Lemmons: "Meh okay fine... but I was really hoping to make this an MCU tie-in. I don't know if you guys have read the script yet but a lot of it just didn't happen so maybe in the sequel (let's make a sequel. Why not?) we could have Harriet living in Wakanda or some shit because I don't give two effs about historical accuracies."

Board: "Let's just go ahead and give you an Oscar now."

-Max Minardi