Marshall (2017)

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This movie could have focused on the entire life of Thurgood Marshall. It instead focuses on one single groundbreaking case, which works just as well. It involves with the case he works on with another lawyer about a black man accused of raping a white woman. Everything about this movie was good from the performances to the story to the ensemble and the way it clicked. The courtroom scenes, the synagogue scene, and the jazz band scene where they met the famous writers were all terrific. Chadwick Boseman was great in the title role.*** out of ****

A must-see if civil rights movement and anti-racism are your topics. Some great acting, and Boseman is mesmerizing. There's a few brilliant moments - the long long hesitation of the judge, the silent communication between Marshall and the accused man.

After watching Marshall Movie a few things come to mind :1) Chadwick Boseman has been on my 'kick ass actor' radar since '42' 2) Josh Gad is like a discounted version of Jonah Hill ... Except not as funny 3) In the movie Chadwick is smoking , drinking , getting drunk and yet hes ripped as hell ... and Josh's character is swimming all day and well ..... you get the picture 4) Its quite a predictable movie 5) Its so sad that this is how people treated each other 6) Even more sad that racism like this still exists ... OK , not as bad but still racism is rife 7) I would like to see a biography on this mans life 8) 'Hey , thats Kate Hudson . She looks good ' 9) I love courtroom dramas 10) Overall , pretty damn good

According to journalist Will Haygood, Thurgood Marshall "trafficked in miracles" in his brilliant legal career. As noted in this film biography, Marshall was the "prime architect of the legal battles for civil rights" in America in the mid-twentieth century. He won 29 out of 32 civil rights cases that he argued before the Supreme Court. In 1954, he won the landmark case of Brown v. the Board of Education that desegregated American Schools. And in 1967, he became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court.This superb film focuses on the famous 1940 trial of Joseph Spell, the African-American chauffeur accused of raping his white employer, Eleanor Strubing. Working with attorney Samuel Friedman, Marshall served as co-counsel during the trial that eventually resulted in Spell's acquittal.The film is successful in presenting the world of 1940, introducing such figures as Langston Hughes and Nora Zeale Hurston. The dialogue is crisp with such memorable lines as Marshall's succinct goal in his civil rights battles: "It's not the fires I'm after, but the fire itself." A fictionalized scene in a bar in a fight ensues results in a simple statement by a woman that becomes the catalyst for Marshall's understanding of the Joseph Spell case: "Men will be men, and women will be women."The centerpiece of the film was the trial, which unfolded with great realism. It did not seem like a typically Hollywood written court drama, but one that proceeded on the unbalanced court system of the 1940s. The screenwriters took great pains to depict the hurdles faced by Friedman and Marshall in overcoming the prejudice of the prosecuting attorney, the judge, and the jury.