Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Fantastic!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Antwone Fisher is a movie about self discovery, but also about the emotional inertia that moves us to the places we end up to be.Antwone Fisher has his options already narrowed because of the place where he was born and the parents he had. His life is a reflection of a sad statistic, and he can hardly blame others to what happened to him because, as his psychologist mentioned, is the result of passing the same treatment generation after generation.Antwone Fisher made me think about how important is to know the forces that, often without your explicit knowledge, push you where you are, and if you don't like the places where these forces carry you, to know that there is a way out.This is not a hero movie, nor a movie of beggar turned millionaire. Is a movie about the path of self-discovery and self-healing.Key phrase: "Sorry Mr. Director, but the chick is way too pretty for that kid"

This movie describes the life of somebody who grew up in the worst of circumstances but unlike many people he actually grew up to be a respectable person. Whats more is that this is a true story.Antwone Fisher is so innocent and yet he was abused such just because he was not white. Antwone Fisher has been married to the same women for ten years and he never fooled around with women, coke, cigars, weed, alcohol, or any of those things that are very popular in the places he was growing up. There is not much more to say about this movie it is excellent. The only rating I can give it is a 10/10.

I ask because I recall when the film was released over four years ago,I seemed to remember that while I was curious about a film that is written by the hero of the story and was pitched as sort of a labor of love,made then into a big-budget Hollywood movie. The ads seemed to tell only a sparse amount of meaty detail of the film,suggesting a sort of "rags-to-riches" or "up from bootstraps" story but not giving much away. After finally getting around to watching this,I now am FULLY aware of why this film was pushed the way it was:basically,there was no choice by the producers or 20th Century Fox,because the story of Antwone Quentin Fisher(played with quiet,almost too quiet,grace and dignity by Derek Luke)is one of great pain and loneliness that cannot be conveyed by a thirty-second movie trailer. To be sure,there's also a very heartening story of success that arises from the film,but in order to get to that,you the viewer need to know WHY this young man's emergence is so special.We meet Fisher as a troubled but basically unassuming and upright young sailor whose been assigned to counseling for striking another sailor,a white one who had mouthed off at him. The therapist he's assigned to,DAvenport(Denzel Washington,also the director)is a no-nonsense guy who understands that Fisher isn't going to open right away,and instead opts to wait him out. Eventually,Antwone little by little opens up about his past(the orphanages,the foster home,the few friends and family he had before the NAvy,etc.)and his present,namely,his interest in a pretty sailor named Cheryl(Joy Bryant,radiant!),and discovers,through both DAvenport,Cheryl and himself,Antwone goes about piecing his life back together to reach some sense of peace,acceptance and even forgiveness.This is another tough film to market(like the Kevin Kline film where he's a headmaster at an exclusive boys' school through three decades,the name of which as you can see escapes me),mainly because it is neither sexy nor sensational,not particularly violent(save a few scenes)and reaches its denouement through very personal,almost cultural means. I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that many people(myself included)have often wondered what it would be like to pen a story of/around their lives and have it made into a major motion picture. After watching the remarkable story of young Antwone Fisher,I kinda feel like he EARNED his right to fill up two hours of screen time,and director/co-star Washington,the producers and cast of this show do that story plenty of justice. Antwone can be proud of many accomplishments,this one of them.

I was flicking through the TV channels and ended up on the Antwone Fisher story. for me as a white Australian woman, this really a movie that should be told over and over and over, till anyone who thinks it's fine to treat people different because of color will never treat them different again. it's a happy, sad, heart warming and joyful at the same time. the next time i flick to see whats on the telly, i really hope it;s a great movie like this one was. threw family's falling apart then years later getting together, it's worth all the tears on the way. it does not matter how are we get hit down threw life, as any color of race, we all survive and love the people that are there for us threw the tough times and there at the other end. my though is never let life pull you so down that you don't think you could ever get up again. as life is really way to short. so go and live life your going to die threw the night.