One Night In Miami Review - 8 Ups & 0 Downs

The message of the film isn't that we shouldn't all blindly follow what we're told is evil, but we should look for ourselves and understand why the actions that some people take are wrong.

Malcolm X's relationship with Sam Cooke and their differing ideas on how they achieve their goals is evidence that the road to equality is made up of more than one person's path.

Regina King has not heavy-handily pushed another film about the sickening and abhorrent treatment of African-Americans upon a wide audience here. What she has done is show us the differences between everybody, even those who believe in the same goal, and how together we are strong enough to affect change without stooping to violence as the method of peace.

One Night In Miami exists not to shock or to horrify like some other great films such as 12 Years A Slave, but to educate and to tap into that most human emotion of empathy, without becoming over-emotional. She uses the story of these four great men to make a statement on how far we have come in the search for equality and how far we still have left to go.