On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco's Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn't distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter's investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee's freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.
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Free Chol Soo Lee was released in 2022 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 15 reviews, giving Free Chol Soo Lee (2022) an average rating of 72%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 76%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 60%. Professional critics were more impressed with Free Chol Soo Lee than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 72%, Free Chol Soo Lee is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2022, which stands at 59%.
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