A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

First Ridley writes the magnificent "12 Years A Slave." Then he does 3 seasons of "American Crime" on American TV, and even though no one watched the third season, and they had to cancel it, it was fantastic. And now we have "Guerrilla," which I wasn't too sure I was going to like going in, but is also very, very good. I used to just make "Best 10" lists for movies, but with the quality of TV so high the last few years, I have started doing it for TV now, and there's a very good chance that "Guerrilla" is going to be on it at the end of this year.While everyone wants to talk about the lead actors/actresses, I thought there were two great performances in supporting roles that are worth mentioning: Zawe Ashton as Omega, one of the leaders of the mainstream black resistance, and Daniel Mays as Cullen, one of the detectives trying to catch the guerrillas.Of course Freida Pinto is gorgeous in the series, and I couldn't help but notice if maybe the filmmakers thought so too, as it seemed the camera lingered on Pinto a bit too long even when other characters were talking on the screen.Idris Elba is barely in it, so if you're watching this series for him, you'll be disappointed.Finally, as another reviewer previously noted, it is indeed surprising that the positive reviews are coming mostly from the Americans, and the negative reviews are coming mostly from the Brits. Since it takes place in England, maybe there is an authenticity issue that I don't know about because I live in the States. But with an interesting story, interesting characters, great dialogue and great performances, I obviously liked it very much.

I was unfamiliar with the story depicted in Guerilla though it is only loosely based on a true story from what I gather. I had heard about controversy hitting the show before it aired with its depiction of black women. I stuck with it knowing it would only take six episodes and the finale was a few days ago by the time I post this so as one might be able to tell, it wasn't a priority. The show is not as explosive as some other Showtime series and doesn't have a sense of urgency trying to tell a grand story in only six episodes. I found some of the acting interesting though I do think the casting could have been better. Idris Elba as Kent is great as he always is in any role he takes on but he has only a few scenes in the early episodes.The story revolves around the romance of Jas Mitra (Freida Pinto) and Marcus (Babou Ceesay). Jas admires his drive to make a difference and helps him break out another radical Dhari (Nathaniel Martello-White). Jas had a relationship with Kent but doesn't like how he takes a more passive approach to resisting the racial profiling and acts of the British Parliament. Kent doesn't like the racial profiling but takes a different approach to resistance. He cooperates with the officer investigating the couple and leads them to a hideout.Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

Whilst race relations in the U.K were not ideal in the 70s you can take it as read the Police force was not made up of Rhodesians and South Africans bent on imposing apartheid nor did they murder protesters in cold blood in front of the general public (there would, anyway, be easier ways of dispensing with enemies). Nor was there a bomb planting, machine gun toting hybrid of the Black Panthers and Red Brigade. Given that race relations are pretty good and young people are extremely gullible this is dangerously divisive rubbish. Idris Elba has benefited from England's cosmopolitan society more than most and should know better. Every single English white person in the entire series is portrayed as a thug at best, psycho at worst. The Baader Meinhof financiers however seem delightful

Great story, beautiful cast and amazing acting. Its portrayal of educated black people is great. A few angry black woman are trolling the cast because the lead isn't a black woman and this is shameful and unfounded. Id like to point out for every 1 show or movie with a black man/ white woman cast there are 10 with a black woman and white man ie dr who, Scandal, Evertthing everything, monsters ball etc Please grow up and stop being prejudice and disgustingly ignorant .