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- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Collin (Daveed Diggs) must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles (Rafael Casal), work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in t...
Directed By: Carlos López Estrada
Written By: Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 35 m
Blindspotting
75
7.5
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Summary Collin (Daveed Diggs) must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles (Rafael Casal), work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in t...
Directed By: Carlos López Estrada
Written By: Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 Critic Reviews
75
88% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
9% Mixed
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2% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 Critic Reviews
75
88% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
9% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Blindspotting moves at a brisk pace and raises the dramatic stakes with each scene; director Estrada has a masterful touch for pacing.
Blindspotting is entertaining, but it also packs an emotional punch. Sometimes, even the place you call home can make you feel like a ghost.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 97 User Ratings
7.5
84% Positive
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
8% Mixed
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8% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 97 User Ratings
7.5
84% Positive
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
8% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
8% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
This film right here is my new favorite film I don't know why it just so f****** good from the fun comedy to the real solid stuff until the ending everything just reminds me of my childhood in it just really nice
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Blindspotting is a passion project, brought to life by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs. The duo wrote, starred, and scored the movie and are the centre of the movie’s success. Blindspotting is extremely fast-moving, covering a lot of ground in its relatively short 1 hour 36 min runtime. Blindspotting presents many of modern-day America’s pressing issues with an easily consumable vignette. The movie is filled with wit, charisma, and charm. While the movie isn’t always saying something, it is always doing something. Blindspotting follows Daveed Diggs’ character Collin on his last few days of probation. Collin is a black man who received unequal punishment at the hands of the criminal justice system. The inciting element of the movie is during Collin’s drive home with only a handful of days of probation left; while stopped at a traffic light, a black man runs out in front of the truck he is driving, skirts around it and is shortly thereafter shot to death by a pursuing police officer. Collin is kept awake at night by PTSD set off by the event and is thrown into chaos from his previous limbo. Miles, played by Rafael Casal, committed the same crime as Collin but was not charged, as such Collin holds some amount of underlying resentment for his friend. Blindspotting explores interracial character relations and relations between classes. The movie explores gentrification, appropriation of black culture, and police brutality. But at the same time, the movie is filled with scenes like the one in the barbershop, where Miles has a rap battle with the head stylist about pawning off a box of old hair curlers. The movie may be rough at a few points, but this is easily missed because of how entrancing the movie is. Blindspotting is exactly what it needs to be when it needs to be it.
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This is vital filmmaking; Blindspotting is undoubtedly part of a new moment in American cinema and is a fierce, complex satire in it own right.
By equal turns hilarious and right on the edge of horrific.
Unfortunately, it’s those same feelings that stick in the memory when López Estrada overdoes the melodrama and lets the plot fire off in too many directions. No worries. Diggs and Casal will keep you riveted.
Ultimately, the movie belongs to Diggs, a Tony winner for “Hamilton” who comes into his own as a genuine movie star with a fully realized performance that easily outshines the bumpier moments.
It’s not that Blindspotting doesn’t have important points to make about how individuals live in a collective history of racialized violence. It’s that it has a hard time making those points feel organic to the story and style, whether it’s going for realism or over-the-top musical-theater territory.
Everything about this movie was **** feel of it the tone of it was truly authentic to the Bay. This movie pays homage to Oakland and all the issues that city is facing right now. Excellent piece of cinema history
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Super powerful movie which is also super funny. Made me think of House Party the way it blended the plight of young black folks vis a vis the police and the general struggle to get by.
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I'm an old white guy (but not especially angry), not the target demographic for this movie, and it's not the greatest I've ever seen, but there are some things I like about it. The tone and energy are clearly above average. Quite an auspicious debut for the lead actors and director. Critical of Oakland but affectionate, their film manages to be both bold and nuanced. And that, dear reader, is unusual.
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There is a 5-6 minute scene in "Blindspotting" where the camera concentrates on Collin (Daveed Diggs) occasionally panning on his friend Miles (Rafael Casal) and a police office (Ethan Embry) that earlier in the movie Collin saw the latter shoot an unarmed black man. It is one of the most mesmerizing scenes that I have ever seen an actor (Diggs) give on screen.
"Blindspotting" in many ways--not good---is like "Sorry To Bother You" which I saw last week, in the sense that the screenplay is all over the place as is the direction but where Sorry is being sold as a comedy/satire Blindspotting is definitely drama. Both are rated R for violence, drugs and language and both deal with the intermixing of the white and black world but Blindspotting deals on a personal level between Collin and Miles being friends since they were kids and Collin being sent to prison for a felony committed by Miles and we meet Collin.
They are many different layers to this film with the obvious one being Collin is black and Miles white and their friendship and what it means. It is obvious the two actors have been friends since they were kids and their rapport is instantly established.
Though the scene I talked about is a 'don't miss' piece of film I really can't recommend it as what starts out as a thing between the two friends, their talking in rap, eventually becomes annoying and makes a lot of 'dialogue' indecipherable. Daveed Diggs who made a name for himself winning a Tony in "Hamilton" on Broadway should certainly gain recognition for "Blindspotting".
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A radically political and polarized film that tries to bend the reality without succeeding in it. Some great humor.
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Production Company
Snoot Entertainment
Release Date Jul 20, 2018
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating R
Tagline What Do You See?
Awards
Seattle Film Critics Society
• 3 Nominations
Austin Film Critics Association
• 3 Nominations
Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
