This movie was amazing. I went to see it yesterday and there were only 2 other ppl in the theater and one of them was with me. That's a shame because this is truly a once in a lifetime sort of film. Usually Hollywood won't green light a historical film without there being some sort of "white savior" character somewhere in the movie (like Free State of Jones which was also released this year), as Danny Glover was told when he tried to make a historical film adaption of the Haitian Revolution. There are NO white savior characters anywhere in Birth of A Nation, which is why the movies success seems critical. There has never been a movie quite like this, and those who dismiss it as "just another slave movie" are missing the point that it is not like other slave movies in that this is Nat Turner leading a slave insurrection to defeat the white power structure. Just watch the movie and decide for yourself instead of listening to all the trash that's being written about the movie in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, etc.