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I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

cleaver in algiers is some of the best footage you will find on the pan African revolutionary struggle, and the cultural reasons for the difficulties that blacks in the US have had finding their place in it (yes, they are not in Africa, duh!). that alone is worth watching this. it's a document of the times, and of the organization the panthers, with no experience and little more than theoretical models, were able to structure against a system of oppression that wanted all people of color across the globe in chains, or dead, since the day they were born "non-white." there is no valid argument against the panthers' program.