An intensely engrossing melodrama, despite its ultimately squandering an opportunity to deliver an emotional payoff.

As I sat there watching the final slow motion image of a young man framed against the flames of a burning refrigerator box I couldn't help but think, "boy, I should have gone and seen Eight Below instead."

Not much of this is new territory, but it can be gripping at times.

Filme triste de temática complexa, surpreende por ter sido dirigido por um cineasta normalmente incompetente e traz performances brilhantes de Jackson e Falco (já Moore, apenas correta, carrega na caracterização).

Freedomland is a drama that plays like an episode of a TV cop show stretched beyond its limits.

Moviemakers who exploit the suffering and death of children to ratchet up the dramatic stakes belong in the innermost circle of hell, but Freedomland -- clumsy and overwrought as it is -- earns the right to its harrowing trajectory.

Richard Price’s dual plot, of the investigation and the escalating racial tensions that surround it, befuddles director Joe Roth from the very start.

Promises much but doesn't connect in the same way as another recent film with racial themes, Crash.

[The] thematic material is so far beyond [director Joe] Roth's reach, you feel that even offering him a stepladder wouldn't help.

If nothing else, Freedomland tries very hard to be a good film.