One Night in Miami

If you can suspend yourself from today's social climate and just watch it from a 1960's perspective, it's fine. By fine, I mean good. Watching the dynamic between all 4 is pretty interesting. 3 entertainment geniuses as famous as could be and 1 guy "who didn't have a job".

If you watch it , you have to understand going in that it is a pure work of fiction. It is the writer’s account of what these guys “may have discussed” if together on that night. They were at the fight. They all support Ali. Clearly Malcolm and Ali were close prior to the fight. The reality is that Ali and his brother converted to the NOI years before the fight. In fact , it was predetermined that the official announcement would take place the say after the fight. Given this, Jim Brown and Cooke affinity for chasing ladies, Cooke’s alcoholism and Malcolm’s desire to maintain an extremely low profile bc of his censorship by NOI, it is extremely unlikely he would have hung out with Brown and Cooke, let alone had any discussions with them about civil rights or religion immediately after that fight.

I liked it as a work of fiction , but like many historical fictions am always concerned that younger generations will accept these works as “fact” as opposed to fiction.

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The actor playing Malcolm X seemed kind of like the weak link to me but that’s probably just from having Denzel’s performance in my head

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I really liked it. I'm glad they went in a totally different direction than Denzel and Spike Lee. I enjoyed all 4 of the main performances, though I thought the Ali role had the least meat to it.

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 I was thinking it would be some kind of movie with some crazy things that happened that spawned some racial stuff.

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What in the marketing, description, or pretty well-known source material led you to expect this?

Nothing. It was a blind watch. I don’t do much research on the movies I watch. Sometimes they tell you too much