Free State of Jones: Review

• This movie was pretty boring. I have heard this movie described movie as “Cinematic NyQuill." I pretty much agree. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy history movies. I love Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, so I am not the kind of person that gets bored with this genre. This movie was so slow. I think that a lot of movies today move too fast and they don’t give you time to think. You constantly have to pay attention and this movie gives you a ton of time to think. A LOT!

• Matthew McConaughey is a Confederate Army nurse and has started to not like the way things are done. He starts a rebellion with escaped slave men. And it is a sloth-like speed to begin this rebellion. So slow. This movie is slow and it has a bit too many speeches from Matthew McConaughey. His character had family of some kind and it was extremely unclear who was in this family. At one point he’s taking care of this kid who very much seemed like it was his son but then it turned out be his nephew, I think. And it was unclear if he was married or not and at one point he was having romance with a girl which I thought was an affair. It was very, very unclear.

• I am a big fan of movies about rebels. This movie had so much potential for that rebellion to be awesome. But we only get a little bit of that. The few action scenes they had were exciting but the stupid trailer (for me) gave away a lot of surprises. If you’ve watched the trailer, you’ve seen a little bit of all the excitement. There are a lot of trailers I can’t stand. This movie was rated R for maybe three scenes. Which those scenes were rough but few. We get these random unnecessary flashes eighty-five years in the future that made no sense to me. And it was much less about the Civil War and more about civil rights.

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• So let me end this on the positives. It did a good job at making me furious at the idiots that ran the South at the time. It was scene after scene after scene the made me so angry, including a scene with a matter of $70 that has a kid taken away from his father. A lot of Matthew McConaughey’s speeches had some great messages with lines like, “You can own a cow, you can own a dog, but you cannot own a child of God.” And finally, my favorite part of the movie is Matthew McConaughey. I’m a big fan of his. I really like him. I like how he’s a southern guy that you can take very seriously. I think that he is going to become even cooler the older he gets. I think he’s a underrated actor and I would love to see him in more. But overall, other than Matthew McConaughey this movie just isn’t that great.