Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

jimmsm Rosewood Florida, I am most familiar with the story. A sheriff was killed while making an arrest. A group of whites formed a vigilante mob and went to lynch the killer. Guns were drawn on each side. 6 black citizens were killed and 1 white. Several more were injured. That's all the deaths that occurred. No genocide, no mass graves of half the town. This film is another example of a factual event that just wasn't glamorous enough for Hollywood. So the story had to be built up, the town burned to the ground while it was actually slowly abandoned because of drought and crop failure. Bing Rhames had to create a character who never existed. Esther Rolle was brought in to provide a central character of good repute who was murdered in cold blood even though only males were killed in real life. Children and woman murdered on screen when it didn't occur in real life. Films like this make me sick, taking a tragedy and stretching it into a holocaust just to provide entertainment and not tell the truth.

Kenneth Sutherland I just saw the movie this week. I'm sorry to say the film was a disappointment, historically, and especially the fictional character, Mann, with rope burns around his neck, and his trick horse! The true story didn't have a superhero with a well-trained horse at the Rosewood massacre. Many of the events, violence based hate crimes, which took place in Rosewood, did actually happen though, at Rosewood, and in many towns and cities in America, Post WWI. As you can see and hear the tone in the Sylvester character, and the "white townies" portrayed, America wasn't ready for equality, or even separate but equal. I saw the children as hope; most of the adults were trapped in that behavior. PBS, or the History Channel, should have made the movie, or else edit the fiction out of the movie for a 45 minute version, an hour with commercials.

Lee Eisenberg Part of what makes "Rosewood" so hard to watch - but I recommend it very much - is not only that it really happened, but also the thought that the events portrayed may have partly been the root of what happened in Florida in 2000. With this vicious racism so deeply ingrained in our society, it's no surprise that Florida's government deprived a number of African-Americans of their right to vote. For more information about these sorts of things, read James Loewen's book "Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong".But anyway, this is a great (and I would say under-appreciated) movie. Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Michael Rooker and Muse Watson all do a great job in their roles. Definitely one of John Singleton's really good ones.

penwil09 This is one of John Singletons' best. I am glad he had the courage to bring it to the big screen, however, a lot was left out, as a friend of mine is a relative Sylvester Carrier. She paints a much more gruesome picture than we see on the screen,which I am sure his editors left on the cutting room floor. The movie was painful to watch with my friend, as she relived old memories told to her as a child, but still entertaining. The actors he chose, fit their parts perfectly, especially the ones that lived in Sumner.They almost made you forget they were just actors, because of such convincing performances.Vingh Rhames was incredible as I believe this was his debut and Michael Rooker is one of my favorites since "Tombstone".If you ever need a lesson on what "lies" and "jealousy" can destroy, this is the movie.