Three quarters of the movie is spent reminding the audience of how bad slavery is, and what might propel a slave to rebel against his or her owners. The last quarter is what you were expecting to see the entire film, and ends up very anti-climatic.
This review of The Birth of a Nation (2016) was written by Mark H on 01 Jan 2017.
The Birth of a Nation has generally received positive reviews.
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