Critic Reviews

Helmer Puneet Issar's righteous indignation is certainly well placed, but his cartoonish portrayals of police, racists and white Americans in general will prove off-putting, as will the generally inept construction of what might have been (say, eight or nine years ago) a very potent political story.

What unfolds instead is a deadly dull trial and boatloads of speechifying about religious dignity, hate crimes and prejudice.