Judas And The Black Messiah Review And Analysis
The film tells the true story of the betrayal of Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, at the hands of Bill O’Neal, a car thief turned FBI informant. The FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen) is a white supremacist, plotting to assassinate Hampton, who is seen as a black Messiah-like his predecessor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On the other hand, O’Neal is a compromised thief manipulated by his handler Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) to infiltrate the Black Panther Party and become the Judas to Hampton’s Jesus....