My quick rating - 7,7/10. I only vaguely remember the tail end of court cases regarding this. Even then, I was far too young to understand the magnitude of what they were. But as anyone knows, the exact same thing that was causing issues in the 60s is the same shit that is happening today. The main focus of the Black Panthers political party was police brutality. Sound familiar? The focus of this movie was more of a story, that of the mole that was more or less forced into giving information to the police to try and get rid of them. Lakeith Stanfield gives a standout performance as the informant(competing with Daniel Kaluuya as Hampton, a Chicago branch leader). His inside info sets up the eventual assassination of the heads of the Chi Town chapter and dissolution completely. The flick takes accounts from the actual Bill O'Neal who gave a rare interview decades earlier, clips of which are shown to lead in and wrap up this tale. To see such a powerful story and how it still relates today to the police use of lethal force now is a grim reminder of just how long this has been an issue. From top to bottom, the movie looks right, flows extremely well and generally deserves the Best Picture winner, my prediction is locked.
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