This reliance on types rather than characters and signals over information — Boston’s intellect is established by a glimpse of him reading Booker T. Washington’s autobiography — is only one of the movie’s difficulties. When the regiment finally mutinies against the violently racist police force (in what became known as the Houston Riot and resulted in the largest murder trial in American history), the sequence should feel cathartic and moving. Instead, it’s confusingly indistinct, the action so murky it’s sometimes difficult to tell who is firing on whom. Shot in just 18 days, “The 24th” is a movie desperately in need of nuance. Watch through select virtual cinemas; rent or buy on Vudu, Google Play and other streaming platforms and pay TV operators.

Source: New York Times August 20, 2020 17:26 UTC