Mooz-Lum

Evan Ross deserves an Oscar. This was an award winning performance for someone so new to the industry. Nia Long also gives one of the best performances of her career to date. As expected Danny Glover plays one of his better known characters {a Mister-type, think Color Purple}. He pulls this off as only he can. Roger G.Smith's maturity shows how much he has grown as an actor since "Malcolm X". His performance is also dead-on. He plays the stern Dad that many of us have grown up with. However it is the climatic end of this tale that really sets this movie apart from the rest. Grown men (macho-types) nearly came to tears at the end of this movie. This is a must-see! Enjoy it with your family.

Not sure why a studio would hype a film that is boring, poorly made and not about anything, glad my date bought the tickets. The acting and directing were especially poor, which was a surprise, Danny Glover is one of my all-time favorites.

Just because a movie is bad does not mean it had a small budget, I doubt this movie had a tiny budget, but it's played off that way to compensate for how bad it is.

If you are looking for a story about the Muslim experience I would recommend reading "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention", you can probably buy it for the money you would waste if you bought tickets to this crap.

I was watching another movie when this rolled up on cable and I saw some of the cast and the title and thought, well lets give it a shot.

Freely I have to admit I was expecting something a bit lighter more of a younger take on being Muslim at a college in America, and the impact 911 had on all Americans Muslim and non-Muslim.

T or Tariq was played magnificently as a young man who is questioning his faith and all the supporting characters were interesting, purposeful ,and well written, but the most impactful was Tariq's mother portrayed by Nia Long. She was strong in all the right ways that it made it feel true and honest like a real Muslim mother.

Now I know how I felt when 9-11 happened and realistically I knew it had to be harder on the Muslim Americans (which I still think people oftimes forget, they are both Muslim and American). The horror and pain they felt was as real and deep as all of ours, if not even more so knowing that people had done this in the name of their faith, which does not preach such violence.

The real beauty of this film is that it does not try to preach or point fingers or say who's wrong and who's right, but show that we have more in common than we think, and we all can be hurt by the same things.

This film is so well done and moving if you have not seen it you must.

President Obama said in his 2011 State of the Union Address - "American Muslims are part of the American Family".

Mooz-lum was in theaters less than 1 month from this historic statement. A story about a yong Muslim boy Tariq (Evan Ross) growing up as a Muslim in America. We experience his challenges, his rebellion and most of all his emotional struggle in accepting the religion that he was born into while living in the country that sometimes reject and ridicule it.

I strongly suggest non-Muslims take a leap of understanding the American Family and go see this film. Directed by Qasim "Q" Basir and a star studded cast including Nia Long, Evan Ross, Danny Glover and more.

We have watched more movies than at any time in our lives and agreed that this one is near the top in terms of acting, content and relevance. Finding engrossing things has always been hit-or-miss but this is hit all the way. They are the kinds of performances I would use to judge others, as in, "Was it as good as _________?"