Renegade Review: Hidden Figures

Welcome Renegade Nation it’s me Naughty Nicole and it’s time for another Renegade Review. Today, we’re going to take a little bit of a departure and talk about a movie that I wouldn’t normally review. I received a request from a listener to review “something” for Black History month, and normally I prefer to review things simply because I watched, read or listened to it, I don’t need a particular holiday or “celebratory month” in order to do a review. But since this was a long-time listener, and he asked so nicely, I thought I would honor his wishes. So I decided I’d pick one of the movies that the Hollywood crowd is dubbing as Oscar-worthy and give it a whirl. So, today's show will be a review of the movie Hidden Figures.
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Now if you’re unfamiliar with the basic story, the film follows three women of color as they become instrumental in the American Space program. So the movie centers on the great space race between the United States and Russia from the 1960’s. This period drama set during the space race peels back the curtain on a shameful corner of racial inequality and pays respect to a small group of people who didn’t get it at the time: the black female “human computers” at NASA whose brilliance helped launch America into space. Now this is based on a true story, and normally I love movies like this. And don’t get me wrong, I did enjoy this movie too, but there were a few things that I think could have been so much better, but we’ll get to that.