The Piano Lesson

You can tell this movie was a play from the limited amount of scene change and heavy dialogue. The performances were great and I liked the overall themes. Ultimately this film asks what’s more important: preserving the past or forging a new future. Just wish there was more.

6

I was looking forward to this, especially for Malcolm/David Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. Overall, the performances were repetitive and irritating. I think it's mostly down to it originally being a play, although I wasn't expecting the writing and acting to be that disappointingly poor. It was a struggle to keep up with the pace since some scenes were loudly explicit with what was going on and others prolonged implicitly. I'm still confused about mostly everything except for the message and music, which were both exceptionally executed. A shame those scenes are sandwiched in a migraine.

I just couldn’t get into this movie. Too much fighting and bickering and not a lot happening.

I was hoping for more historical value to a good thrill ratio within this movie but it was more or less slow and not really attention grabbing. Feel like there could have been a lot more done with this film. 5.2 out of 10

I was looking forward to this, especially for Malcolm/David Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. Overall, the performances were repetitive and irritating. I think it's mostly down to it originally being a play, although I wasn't expecting the writing and acting to be that disappointingly poor. It was a struggle to keep up with the pace since some scenes were loudly explicit with what was going on and others prolonged implicitly. I'm still confused about mostly everything except for the message and music, which were both exceptionally executed. A shame those scenes are sandwiched in a migraine.

Fantastic!