Just Mercy

Now this is a movie I've had a good feeling about ever since I saw the trailer. I am a huge fan of biographical movies and this seemed just suited for me and best of all, I was right to feel good about it.

It's only very early of the year but I feel I have just watched the best movie of 2020. We have a long way to go but I seriously doubt any film will be this one. This is a seriously powerful and impactful masterpiece that had me captivated by it's themes.

First we need to talk about the incredible performances from Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx. Jordan brings a lot of determination and charisma to the role he plays and Jamie Foxx delivers such a heartbreaking performance of a broken man who has just given up on all hope. From the moment, we see how broken his character is, you instantly feel sorry for him and root for him to get justice.

But the real star is the subject of the themes used for this movie; racism. There are a lot of hard hitting scenes in this movie that are actually very harrowing. This movie does something very brave and doesn't hold back on how serious racism was in the 80s. It could have played it safe but instead director Destin Daniel Crettin goes with the more realistic route and shows just how real and raw racism was back then.

There's one scene where Jordan's character arrives at a police station and is forced into a strip search where he feels humiliated and with the use of fantastic cinematography, as the camera zooms further to his face, we seen it in his eye's how humiliated he feels and that for me was a really hard scene to watch.

I had such a great time with this movie, I honestly cannot find any flaws or nit picks at it. I was captivated from beginning to end and by the end of the film, we feel a great deal of relief as Foxx's character gets the justice he deserves and Jordan's character wins his first case.

Just Mercy is a brilliantly directed and made masterpiece with such compelling performances and tackles racism sensitively and realistically and does this true heartbreaking story justice.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐