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51913, gross simplification
Posted by DrNO, Mon Jun-05-06 03:49 PM
the fact that the early years feel like a cartoon. Also, the original script was written by James Baldwin and Spike basically threw away everything nuanced about it that gave Malcolm real humanity. Baldwin's estate had his name removed from the films credits.

"The necessity of creating a pious "official" (i.e., middle-class) portrait squeezes out too many aspects of Malcolm's varied experience and mercurial intelligence; even at 199 minutes, this often feels like a skim job. But if you're too lazy to read the book, you probably should see this." - Jonathan Rosenbaum.