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732810, It's better than it has any business being.....
Posted by blueeclipse, Wed Dec-05-18 03:33 PM
Viggo and Mahershala saved what would otherwise have been a borderline offensive film. The script isn't bad.....it's just blah. You can tell white people wrote this. There's not much flavor or seasoning in this film. For a film about the Green Book it doesn't really explore the true nature of the Jim Crow south. There's a few cookie cutter scenes here and there of being pulled over by racist cops and shit like that but nothing really delving into the true nature of the beast that was the south in 1960's.

Despite all of this I actually enjoyed the film for no other reason than the performances of the two lead actors. They were great in this and saved this from being on the level of that garbage ass Nina Simone biopic.