The synopsis for this movie on IMDb reads "A look into the early life of U.S. President Barack Obama".
If this was a look at a future President's early life, then what would a glimpse look like. As others have stated here, I was looking forward to seeing this movie so much that I very unwisely bought it on Blu-Ray before I watched it on Netflix. Had I watched it first on Netflix, I would NEVER have shelled out money for the Blu-Ray.
I learned absolutely F--- all about Barack Obama's early life apart from a couple of episodes in the movie where he suffered discrimination from Campus security guys based on his race. Wow, what a revelation!! That black men in the USA, and black people generally, suffered discrimination in the USA at that time (as they do today).
I notice that, uncharacteristically, IMDb does not include details of the cost of producing this movie. I am guessing that the cost was not great. To have produced a movie, filmed in parts in Kenya, in Indonesia, in NYC, in Illinois and in Washington DC, one which told a full story about Barack Obama's life, would obviously have cost a lot of money. Much more money than this one cost and which concentrated on a part of Obama's life which I found terribly uninteresting and uninformative.
This was a very poor movie and I basically went along with the rating of 5.8 shown on IMDb. It was pointless and far less interesting than it might have been had the producers concentrated on the future President's life as a whole, rather than on just one small part which really made no point in relation to his life, his philosophy and his Presidency.
jmvscotland
If this was a look at a future President's early life, then what would a glimpse look like. As others have stated here, I was looking forward to seeing this movie so much that I very unwisely bought it on Blu-Ray before I watched it on Netflix. Had I watched it first on Netflix, I would NEVER have shelled out money for the Blu-Ray.
I learned absolutely F--- all about Barack Obama's early life apart from a couple of episodes in the movie where he suffered discrimination from Campus security guys based on his race. Wow, what a revelation!! That black men in the USA, and black people generally, suffered discrimination in the USA at that time (as they do today).
I notice that, uncharacteristically, IMDb does not include details of the cost of producing this movie. I am guessing that the cost was not great. To have produced a movie, filmed in parts in Kenya, in Indonesia, in NYC, in Illinois and in Washington DC, one which told a full story about Barack Obama's life, would obviously have cost a lot of money. Much more money than this one cost and which concentrated on a part of Obama's life which I found terribly uninteresting and uninformative.
This was a very poor movie and I basically went along with the rating of 5.8 shown on IMDb. It was pointless and far less interesting than it might have been had the producers concentrated on the future President's life as a whole, rather than on just one small part which really made no point in relation to his life, his philosophy and his Presidency.
jmvscotland