Cinematography is okay. Sound design is okay. The acting is quite bland and some of the dialogue feels very weird and out of place at times, specially taking into account the way some of the lines are delivered. The movie is very loosely based on real events. After finishing it I was curious about the story so I did some digging. As a cinephile, one has to be used to movies based on real events making creative choices and changing some stuff around, but this just takes the cake. It portraits the policemen like stone cold killers set on erradicating all the minorities from earth... I'm being hyperbolic of course, but that's my point, filmakers went out of their way to turn the policemen unlikeable a*holes looking for excuses to kill people.

Waste of time.

Maybe the best thing this actor has done. Based on another case of wildly overreacting white police vs. A black guy, the movie is dragged out and over-dramatized on the part of the police.

Faison's plausible and excellent acting are the reason to watch. The racial overtones are explicit here, meant to be, and while in many realities where excessive or lethal force is used, in this case the victim really was, according to the articles I read on the case, for what those are worth, truly innocent and hideously misinterpreted by government with its own murderous implicit agendas. I say this because in most cases, all the renowned ones we all know, usually the 'victim' was acting in some way where a case could be made that their behavior had something to do with the response. Some ambiguity.........

No uncertainty here though. The beard made the actor a little hard to recognize for a minute, but he seemed to familiar. He's been around forever and I've like his work in a zillion movies, and this may be his most commanding role. I guess the cops need to be stereotyped for 'dramatic purposes', and their drawn out and escalating stupidity, the whole arrogant macho club thing, makes its point, but is a little overcooked.

It's a sad sorry difficult thing depicted, and this terrific actor really inspires empathy.

The movie is very powerful in the story that unfolded when a 70 yr old veteran was killed by police because he wouldn't do what they wanted him to do, there is no propaganda about the movie, if that is how police act in America, i can understand why people hate them, instead of sending storm troopers for a welfare check, either firemen or paramedics would be better, as they have compassion and are trained and educated, not thugs. The acting was spot on, and the story unfolded in a truthful easy to understand way, pity the police weren't charged with murder.