Amistad, despite its powerful subject matter, is most vexingly long on philosophical wind but disappointingly short on human emotion. A Spielberg movie short on human emotion? Are you nuts?

The Amistad story, Cripps adds ... More important, his brand identity has ensured that this movie will be seen by blacks and whites, with luck together. And with luck, it will get us talking ...

We all share the same fate.

BLACK people who think that Steven Spielberg’s latest movie “Amistad” is about black heroes taking their freedom by any means necessary are doomed to disappointment upon seeing the movie.

About a 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the northeastern coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the free man who led the revolt.