Haile Gerima's movie sucks. These days he can be found at his café bookstore pretending he is African American and screaming at customers about gentrification, his misnomered identity, and Bank of America, the movie is just as pathetic as the writer. The movie which falls on low budget Sci-Fi meets the Waltons, serious in the movie's ambitious attempt to fit the writer in amongst the pioneers of Black Cinema, and comical because it was the worst movie ever to get out of a college project with the pretentiousness of Euro trash pretending in knows anything about colonial or colonial time periods for the movie's theme. Well thought out for an ABC after school special but still weak, and plagiarized from another screen gem. If you want to see a movie made by a high school senior and completely corny with respect to ambitious attempt to get a story right, the synthesis was the highpoint of putting two themes together which again in repetitive tedium still is a suck fest not being told by a trusted raconteur but a pig who puts together Euro trash with the attempt to pass it off as an authentic message.
