Antebellum

Lionsgate | Release Date (Streaming): September 18, 2020

5.2	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 73 Ratings

USER RATING DISTRIBUTION

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Watch Now

Stream On

Buy on

Stream On

Expand

Review this movie

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Please sign in or create an account before writing a review.

Check box if your review contains spoilers

0 characters (5000 max)

User Reviews

User score By date Most helpful

Mclovin69Dec 4, 2020

There really wasn't much context at all, you guys straight up jump into this weird snm sht, and it seems like a rip off of get out.

4 of 4 users found this helpful40

All this user's reviews

FrisbiekSep 19, 2020

Was pretty disappointed. 3/4 of the movie is pretty slow. By the time you get to the "twist", it's a major let down.

3 of 3 users found this helpful30

All this user's reviews

viroodiemSep 23, 2020

Pure, triple distilled racist propaganda. It amazes me that this could make it to release.

Every corner of this drips black racism. However its misandry and sexism are not that far behind. What is more nuanced is the elitism that is morePure, triple distilled racist propaganda. It amazes me that this could make it to release.

Every corner of this drips black racism. However its misandry and sexism are not that far behind. What is more nuanced is the elitism that is more delicately woven into the fabric of the film.

Trying to remain positive of a film that does not deserve such consideration, the sets are well done and the actors do their best with what they had to work with. Gabourey Sidibe does a particularly good job of portraying a completely unlikable character with clear delusions and entitled sense of self worth that would simply not be humanly possible.

The racist tropes are all here and it goes out of its way to put forth some rather inventive ones in this plot that is so utterly implausible it is literally impossible.

What this film does is impressive. It shows just how far propaganda can go to push a political ideology, all while being obliviously unaware of itself to understand just how wrong it gets the subject matter it deals with, all while insulting its prime target demographics.

All that said if you can get beyond rolling your eyes in the back of your head for how ridiculous the movie is, it is at least on some level entertaining. Sadly its the level of watching a train wreck to see how mangled the bodies come out but people do in fact watch for that sort of thing, even if they will never dare admit that is why they gawked.

Look, dont take my word for it... just look at how low the critic scores are and know studios can buy critic reviews with ease. If it can only muster a 44 with as high of a profile as this movie has, you KNOW its terrible.… Expand

5 of 10 users found this helpful55

All this user's reviews

UncleWillardSep 18, 2020

This is the cinematic equivalent of our current culture, in that it looks to the past from our current moral perspective, ignoring the process that got us here. Slavery was horrifying and we know that now, and we know that because we made itThis is the cinematic equivalent of our current culture, in that it looks to the past from our current moral perspective, ignoring the process that got us here. Slavery was horrifying and we know that now, and we know that because we made it illegal. Ignoring that growth nullifies the fact that, while we had slavery less than 200 years ago, we've evolved to the point of having had a black president in that historically short amount of time. This film is just another, pandering what if adventure like Watchmen and Lovecraft Country, where our black heroes get revenge for past wrongs. It's a movie version of shoulda, coulda, woulda. It also has no value. Add to that, Janelle Monae is not a good actress.… Expand

5 of 10 users found this helpful55

All this user's reviews

chetlySep 18, 2020

Story could have been so much more but seems to focus too much on "evil slavery". Like sure there were slaves and it was bad but I'm not here to watch a documentary. Not emotional enough, maybe due to the writing it just bad direction.Story could have been so much more but seems to focus too much on "evil slavery". Like sure there were slaves and it was bad but I'm not here to watch a documentary. Not emotional enough, maybe due to the writing it just bad direction. Something I will forget quickly.… Expand

2 of 6 users found this helpful24

All this user's reviews

LgothardSep 20, 2020

Just bad how a writer has to constantly make white people the bad guys. It’s been a reoccurring theme with Pelle, and I could deal with it, if the movie was good. But it wasn’t. Not a horror movie at all!!

1 of 4 users found this helpful13

All this user's reviews

JackthecrowOct 6, 2020

Just watched the movie ,well i can say it was quite political and badly filmed . As of now just saw these ideas in the film : Feminism , rasisms agaisnt whites
Black propaganda , cultism , about normalizing unstable relationships , theftJust watched the movie ,well i can say it was quite political and badly filmed . As of now just saw these ideas in the film : Feminism , rasisms agaisnt whites
Black propaganda , cultism , about normalizing unstable relationships , theft ,rape . And as of now before going to a film thats a "horror " film i was disapointed .… Expand

1 of 4 users found this helpful13

All this user's reviews

neldotJan 16, 2021

The plot idea is not so bad, but the realization is really, really outrageously bad. Too much ideology and propaganda that have really nothing to do with the story, while the story itself seems to be written by a retarded first grader, withThe plot idea is not so bad, but the realization is really, really outrageously bad. Too much ideology and propaganda that have really nothing to do with the story, while the story itself seems to be written by a retarded first grader, with very shallow characters and very little suspense.… Expand

0 of 2 users found this helpful02

All this user's reviews

Hass1986Apr 6, 2021

Save yourself the watch, obviously a movie created to add to BLM narrative. But awfully delivered. I should have seen the ratings before wasting my time with it. The twist was absolutely crap. Got sucked in with the “from the producers of GetSave yourself the watch, obviously a movie created to add to BLM narrative. But awfully delivered. I should have seen the ratings before wasting my time with it. The twist was absolutely crap. Got sucked in with the “from the producers of Get Out” everything after Get Out has been trash. So is this..… Expand

0 of 1 users found this helpful01

All this user's reviews

daebu_charSep 23, 2020

A shameless exploitation of the collective paranoid delusion seizing America. "Antebellum" (which literally means 'before a war') wants you to believe that it's perfectly plausible for you to wake up as a plantation slave any day now. AfterA shameless exploitation of the collective paranoid delusion seizing America. "Antebellum" (which literally means 'before a war') wants you to believe that it's perfectly plausible for you to wake up as a plantation slave any day now. After all, no black person is safe in Trump America so make sure you get yourself a good sun screen while you still can for those long plantation afternoons! In other words, always count on Hollywood to divide rather than unite. Another shameless thing is the incessant name-dropping of "Get Out" in like 99% of promotional materials for the film. Don't let that fool you into thinking you're watching some sort of spiritual successor to Get Out--Jordan Peele, who was largely responsible for why "Get Out" was a success, was not involved in "Antebellum" in any way and it shows.… Expand

0 of 3 users found this helpful03

All this user's reviews

boltronJun 12, 2023

The real horror here is that you tried to sit through this plodding nonsense. Two dimensional caricatures populate a movie so lazy the end is Blazing Saddles' "French mistake" without anyone realizing it.

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

All this user's reviews