In the eyes of the world, Sun Xiaohu is missing. In reality, he's a wandering spirit that can only appear to and interact with his twin brother, Sun Xiaotu. With his brother's help, Sun Xiaotu joins the police force in order to find out what really happened to his brother, but they soon discover they're just one part in a much bigger plot.
Do not trust Rotten Tomatoes. That is what I learned after watching Eternals. Critics currently rate it a 48%, but it's an amazing character-focused Marvel movie with positive diverse representation.
The justice system in the United States of America is supposed to operate as you are deemed innocent until proven guilty. But "When They See Us" shows what happens for Black people is they are deemed guilty until proven innocent.
Remakes. Reboots. Reinventions. Redundancy. It's the common practice in Hollywood of late, sometimes offering us victorious reimagining of what can be considered cinematic classics while also, more often, falling flat on their UN-imaginative faces in utter defeat and lackluster results. Admittedly, with this in mind, I went into the newest incarnation of "The War of the Roses" with typical trepidation and cautious optimism.
Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.
The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.
