The Six Triple Eight (2024)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Milauna Jackson, Gregg Sulkin
Synopsis:
By the end of 1944 the vast majority of U.S. military mail has not reached its destination, whether at home or the front. The 800 personnel of the Women's Negro Army corps are given the task of sorting the backlog, and an impossible deadline. Meanwhile one of its members is secretly in search of some written sign from her beloved, killed in action.
Review:
A blood-stained letter, obtruding Schindler's List-style from the mountains of mail, the most unspeakably bigoted behaviour from senior officers, an immaculate makeover of a rat-infested, disaffected school building inside a month... these are some of the story tropes that put one in mind of the Hollywood of yesteryear, and undoubtedly compound the indignation/empathy quotient already embedded in this astoundingly true story. It seems a shame the makers felt they needed to turn the emotional volume up to 11 in this way, but the flm is nevertheless an impressive achievement and further proof of Netflix's ability to turn out quality product.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Milauna Jackson, Gregg Sulkin
Synopsis:
By the end of 1944 the vast majority of U.S. military mail has not reached its destination, whether at home or the front. The 800 personnel of the Women's Negro Army corps are given the task of sorting the backlog, and an impossible deadline. Meanwhile one of its members is secretly in search of some written sign from her beloved, killed in action.
Review:
A blood-stained letter, obtruding Schindler's List-style from the mountains of mail, the most unspeakably bigoted behaviour from senior officers, an immaculate makeover of a rat-infested, disaffected school building inside a month... these are some of the story tropes that put one in mind of the Hollywood of yesteryear, and undoubtedly compound the indignation/empathy quotient already embedded in this astoundingly true story. It seems a shame the makers felt they needed to turn the emotional volume up to 11 in this way, but the flm is nevertheless an impressive achievement and further proof of Netflix's ability to turn out quality product.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Milauna Jackson, Gregg Sulkin
Synopsis:
By the end of 1944 the vast majority of U.S. military mail has not reached its destination, whether at home or the front. The 800 personnel of the Women's Negro Army corps are given the task of sorting the backlog, and an impossible deadline. Meanwhile one of its members is secretly in search of some written sign from her beloved, killed in action.
Review:
A blood-stained letter, obtruding Schindler's List-style from the mountains of mail, the most unspeakably bigoted behaviour from senior officers, an immaculate makeover of a rat-infested, disaffected school building inside a month... these are some of the story tropes that put one in mind of the Hollywood of yesteryear, and undoubtedly compound the indignation/empathy quotient already embedded in this astoundingly true story. It seems a shame the makers felt they needed to turn the emotional volume up to 11 in this way, but the flm is nevertheless an impressive achievement and further proof of Netflix's ability to turn out quality product.