marissabaty Thank you for sharing the truth! This comprehensive factually based documentary was well produced. I was devastated upon seeing the facts of this murder. I was previously misinformed. I'm ashamed I believed the falsely construed narrative. The truth is so painful.

rserrato-939-513294 The film does an excellent job of revisiting the Michael Brown case. It does so by untangling the two competing narratives that were told at the time. To be sure, the film concludes that Michael Brown was murdered in cold blood and that the Ferguson Police chose to cover it up to cover their own assess rather than to own up to what happened. It also ties this outcome to the broader history of racism and poor police relations with the black community in the south. But that doesn't mean it's biased. It just tells a strong and compelling story. It unveils devastating lies in the Police narrative of what happened that day. It is a story that should jar you to your core if you are not a racist and if you actually believe in and love this country. Don't let the bigots trying to lower the films ratings here deter you. They would be better served spending their time trying to answer the devastating critiques this film adroitly delivers.

TH1CK A must watch. Anybody that says different is clearly not truthful. Too much evidence ignored. Too many spins by the "authorities". The cover up is twice as bad as the killing.

trublu215 I watched this as a part of the SXSW Film Festival in its documentary section and while the film did provide a little bit more clarity into Michael Brown as a person, it fails to deliver any concrete answers as to what exactly happened on the fateful day he was shot. Which was disappointing because, prior to the screening, director Jason Pollock bolstered that never-before-seen evidence would be shown and a mysterious video that will shatter the public perception of the case. This proved to be very much reaching for nothing as the "earth shattering" revelation that is revealed is a very grainy and very blurry video that leaves more questions than answers. The film interviews the Brown family and the many friends he had. While this paints a very perfect light around Michael Brown and it is very wrong to speak ill of the dead, the film gives off an angelic vibe as if Michae Brown was more of a saint than anything else. This was a huge issue for me as a viewer because after forty minutes of glowing things to be said about him, never once was there any adverse interviews. There wasn't anything in the film that put him at fault for anything. It gave off a very one sided and biased depiction of the young man. While I am far from any which side of this matter, it would have been nice to hear more real things about him instead of parading family and friends in front of a camera in hopes of capturing more of a tribute video instead of an investigative documentary. This spins the film into an unintentionally frustrating chain of events from what happened to Michael Brown to the Grand Jury decision. The film's target is very clear from this point on. It isn't about Michael Brown after this, it is about the police and the brutality they enforce on the community in which Brown was a member of.Then, at the last 10 minutes, director Jason Pollock decides to introduce more questions into his death by way of this video from the store in which Brown allegedly robbed before he was shot. Even then, director Jason Pollock fails to really captivate the audience because the video itself proves nothing but the narrative of the film seems to push the idea that it does. Either way, the documentary's big reveal is a big bust and makes the entire documentary feel very trivial especially when there is such little amount of film left. To introduce something as amazing as Pollock makes it out to be as late as he introduces it not only makes the film frustrating, it leaves us feeling like we watched a singular episode of something much bigger which is the most frustrating part of all. Overall, this documentary is more like a tribute to Michael Brown and as that, it works. But as an investigative documentary, it is paper thin. Ideas go nowhere, are over sensationalized or are simply too vague to even decode or both, either way this is a film that misses a huge mark. While many expecting a documentary like Making a Murderer or The Jinx will walk away from this very disappointed, like I have. However, if you want to know more about Michael Brown and who he was, then this film will surely peak your interests. For me, I wished the film was what it promised to be.