Panther | Joe Don Baker, Angela Bassett

Panther | Joe Don Baker, Angela Bassett | Moving, Riveting and Underrated

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Panther

	Panther Joe Don Baker, Angela Bassett Polygram Video, 1996 average customer review:based on 35 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

too high

I LOVE this movie but these prices are crazy!!! Tower.com for 25.99 people. I think this is a great movie to have in your collection but I think that people who really want to see this movie are being taken advantage of.

Moving, Riveting and Underrated

This movie piqued my interest in doing further research on the Black Panther Party. I found the movie to not only be entertaining, but very enlightening. It shows how social injustice and racism were institutionalized and clandestinely orchestrated from the nation's top levels.

I was a little disappointed in the ending (it was anticlimactic to the riveting events leading up to it). However, I believe this flick is much more powerful for the informational aspect, entertainment value (humor, drama, all that) and eye-opening truth than critics have given it credit for.

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all that could be told

Panther explains the building foundations for the corruptness of the government and the silencing of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. This movie places great emphasis of how our cultural world exploits, degrades, and humiliates the AFRICAN-AMERICAN people, through the eyes of the government. Panther is one of many movies that should be viewed, shared and remembered. All characters protrayed in this movies have done an outstanding job bringing the best and the worst of the BLACK PANTHER organization. Explaining in format through scenes, of how the infiltration, conspiracys, and the lynching of the urban world continued to grow.....Once again, PANTHER is a movie to remember

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The film does what it is supposed to do..

This film does not tell the entire story of the Black Panther Party. No film could realistically scrape the surface of the party's vast history. What this film does do is peak curiosity. It causes one to think. It causes one to explore how history (black history in particular) has been portrayed in America. Simply put, Panther is one of the top 5 most powerful films I have ever seen (the other four are Rosewood, Malcolm X, Amistad, and Roots, in no particular order).

Not As Gut Wrenching As..........................

Malcolm X or Rosewood, but nonetheless, still effective in bring across the injustices suffered by african-americans in the 60's to early 70's. I initially saw this film when I was very young and kind of slept on it. However, after doing extensive research on The Panthers, their coming together, their downfall, and the devilish conspiracies of one J. Edgar Hoover, not only contributing to the Panthers downfall, but the killing of MLK, Malcolm X, and even indirect in the assassination of JFK, I found this movie to be enlightening and a constant reminder of where my people have come from, and how much further we still have to go even today. The one part of the movie that is haunting for me and stands out so much is Hoover's direct or indirect involvement in drugs and heroin being brought into our inner cities to directly make our people commit geonocide on one another (though some may say this was ficticious, but we really know better). Our Black leaders have cried this argument for the past 30 years and doesn't it seem rather ironic that the drug epedemic happened to boom just as the Panthers were being broken up, The Vietnam War ending, and racial tensions between blacks and law enforcement was at an all time high? Coincidence, I think not. The only thing is that those persons responsible for flying that stuff into our urban cities and ghetto's never counted on the fact that it would explode as a nationwide epedemic by the time the mid 80's rolled around and a drug called crack came into existence. I think the movie should have gone a little deeper into the Panthers as a whole but knowing the Hollywood establishment, I'm sure the Van Peebles didn't have the luxurious studio budget afforded their white counterparts to make the movie they probably intended on making. Still a keeper and a collector's item and indeed true American history.

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