![]() It can’t decide if it wants to be exhaustively comprehensive with its facts or if it wants to take a closer look at Mandela’s actual psychology and personality. There are several admirable qualities to Chadwick’s work and the always exceptional Idris Elba gives an outstanding leading performance, but this film also suffers from an identity crisis. ![]() Granted it was made well before Mandela passed away, and while not necessarily a bad film or one that does a disservice to the man’s legacy, it’s just a rather inert bit of filmmaking. ![]() It’s a shame that in the year of Nelson Mandela’s death the best tribute anyone has been able to come up with outside of some really thoughtfully written pieces by those who knew the South African civil rights leader best is Justin Chadwick’s biopic, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. ![]()
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