Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

No sir. Lets do this better next time. , if we need a next time. Go for Touusannt Louveture next time. that would be a good movie. I admire Nate Parkers effort to bring forth a piece from history that would show that black culture didn't just sit back and accept their circumstance but fought for freedom, but he chose the wrong direction. The movie was supposed to be about the actual rebellion, and it should have gone straight to the battle. It took tooo long to get there and when you get there , the battle lasted all of 5 minutes in a defeat that ended with a black man hanging from a tree and whites clapping in the background. ummmm no. people pleasing ending, psychological warfare and the emasculating of black men in film and theatre is getting really tired.

Nat Turner (Nate Parker) is a literate slave and preacher and his owner Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer) decides to use Nat's skills to try to calm down other unruly slaves. However, when Nat continually witnesses the atrocious way that the slaves are treated he decides that he can stand by no more and with the help of a small group of fellow slaves he decides to overthrow their owners' violent regime...The Birth Of A Nation is a well-intentioned, but frequently dull film. Whilst there clearly is a story here, Parker doesn't seem in much of a hurry to tell his story - the film flits between atrocities and preaching, but without any glue to hold the two things together. There's no real character development on offer here and Parker doesn't really teach us much about the era either; I have learned to take biopics with a pinch of salt as we all know that they can often be 'historically inaccurate', but I still think it would have been nice if there were more in the way of content.Parker presents the whole thing in such a dull and one-dimensional manner that it's almost impossible to care about anyone or anything (and believe me it is hard for me to write these things knowing how badly slaves were treated in the 19th century), but those are my honest feelings on this film.There were a couple of things that I liked about the film; the score is good and the era has been captured very well. Parker does give an impassioned performance and although his film is problematic, his performance is nothing short of superb - although I found it distracting because of how much he reminded me of Jamie Foxx. He's well supported by the likes of Armie Hammer and it's always nice to see Jack Haley in any picture and he's great in the limited scenes that he appears in.All in all, The Birth Of A Nation is a pretty poor film that sadly doesn't have a particularly engaging narrative and is filled with poorly developed one-dimensional characters whom it is hard to really care about (as I said before it pains me to say this, but sadly it's true). This is Nate Parker's directorial debut and in fairness I can see potential here, but let's hope that he improves his craft on his next attempt.

Virginia, 1820s/30s. Nat Turner is a slave on a cotton plantation. Through his eyes we see the conditions the slaves have to live under, in particular, the brutality of the slave-owners. Due to having the rare privilege of being able to read, Nat is a Christian preacher. His ability to influence other slaves is used by the slave-owners to their own ends, and ultimately by Nat to fight back.Based on a true story, and produced by, directed by, written by and starring Nate Parker, this movie had the potential to be a powerful examination of the inhumanity of slavery. However, for the most part, it doesn't go anywhere new and is quite dull in its delivery. The first 70% or so of the movie would be only interesting to those who had never seen a movie or documentary on US slavery before. Pretty stock standard stuff, with one-dimensional characters and predictable plot. Quite clumsy at times too, with unnecessary symbolic imagery that is almost laughable. The final 30% sees the outcome of this brutality and is fairly interesting, with an ending that is reasonably powerful. However, it is underdeveloped and demonstrates how bad the pacing of the movie is. Instead of spending 70% on overdrawn setup and 30% on hasty conclusion, Parker should have built up the pace and spent more time on the outcome.On another note, the choice of title is interesting. The 1915 film The Birth of a Nation is one of the most controversial and divisive movies of all time. Directed by cinematic pioneer DW Griffith, on the one hand it is lauded as a seminal moment in movie history, due to its cinematographic innovations. However, it is also one of the most racist movies ever made, ending up as a pro-Ku Klux Klan propaganda campaign.If one of the aims of the 2016 The Birth of a Nation was to reclaim what the title means and set the record straight, fair enough. Just a pity the finished product doesn't come anywhere close to living up to that billing.Watch 12 Years a Slave instead.

. . . BIRTH OF A NATION (aka, WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE GRAPES OF WRATH) that the ONLY way to deal with Urban Unrest back in the 1800s was a thorough axle greasing (which gave rise to the expression, "The squeaky wheel gets greased"). Now Director Benny Boom carries this theme forward with another True American Story, ALL EYEZ ON ME. Mr. Boom makes it clear that the protagonist of this Tragic Tale emerged from a deep gene pool of UltraViolent Urban Guerillas, not unlike Parker's earlier Nat Turner Doomed Hero. Abraham Lincoln was 22 years old when Nat got greased, causing this Great Emancipator to found the G.O.P. on a Repatriation Platform. Though as President, Abe was gunned down like NAACP Leader Tupac Shakur, Grateful Americans carved a giant replica of him on Mount Rushmore for his Great Idea. ALL EYEZ ON ME carries Parker's saga of Nat forward nearly 200 years to prove that America is NOT a safe or suitable environment for transplants with the characteristics of Nat and Tupac. It shows Tupac causing the death of an six-year-old from his own clan in a public park, while committing numerous other felonies against his misplaced cohorts. It shows some guy named "Shug" also engaging in countless violent felonies, as well as a stray prison-yard murder as another example of fraternal warfare. The U.S. Government is justly criticized for wasting nearly half its budget to lock up nearly all the Urban Males, and many of their Moms, such as Tupac's. Leader Trump MUST redirect a small fraction of this "corrections" budget to implement Abe Lincoln's own Grand Correction plan of repatriating a kidnapped, hostage population to the more suitable environment from which it sprang. Leader Trump should start with the Will and Jada Smith Crime Syndicate, which the ALL EYEZ ON ME whistle-blowers finger for Tupac's slaying, if not Shug's. The Streets of Chicago have been stained with ENOUGH blood, let alone L.A., Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, etc. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of Leader Trump's Muslim Deportation Proposal Today, so it seems unlikely to scotch an idea adopted from the also revered Abe Lincoln which will curtail any more of this ALL EYEZ ON ME-style UltraViolence.