Movie – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom: B-

B-
Though Mandela’s life certainly deserves a telling, this version plays it too safe, hindering the drama. And the scope is entirely too large. Like most full-life-biopics, nothing is allowed focus, and it feels like reading a Wikipedia page. Idris Elba and Naomie Harris both do a great job, capturing the accents especially well, but they were apparently the only ones who were told they were portraying South Africans, as no else attempted to sound like one.