The movie is far from perfect, I particularly hated that it was told from the perspective of the rat. But it was a much more radical depiction of Fred Hampton than I expected to get in a Hollywood movie and I think it's useful as part of a pipeline to socialism. A lot of Americans don't know the history of the Black Panther Party or what they did for their communities because that is not taught in schools, and those same people don't know that the FBI and police departments have been assassinating black leaders for generations. This film makes Fred Hampton look great and also quite radical and revolutionary to the standards of your average American, even if it doesn't fully represent how radical he was; it makes the Black Panther Party look great; and it holds few punches in making the FBI and cops look bad, accurately showing Hampton's death to be an explicit assassination ordered by Hoover with Chicago cops executing him after the raid and hailstorm of bullets they fired left him still breathing.

I would've preferred a biopic of Fred Hampton as the radical revolutionary he is instead of what we got, too. And I think having grown men play the parts really downplays just how young they all were. The FBI brought the rat in at 17...17!!!! How different does that scene look with a 17 y.o. kid instead of Lakeith Stanfield who's about to be 30? And Fred Hampton was only 21 when assassinated. But I entered the movie skeptically and ended up really moved by all the Fred Hampton parts, especially the beginning and end where they show real clips. I think it's one of the more explicitly radical Hollywood films that I've seen.