I was utterly riveted by this Spike Lee biographical treatment of the great leader; everything about the man and the history is fascinating, Denzel does his usual outstanding job, and yes, the movie is 3.5 hours long, but (and yes this is an abnormal position for me) it really earns it, the man deserves it.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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