the problem with this movie be sum up in the very first scene where rubin hurricane carter fight emile griffith for the world welterweight championship in 1963 . you might be surprise when i point out that carter never fight griffith for a world championship in 1963 though he do fight for the middlewight championship a year later against champion joey giardello who beat him on point with plenty to spare . you might also be shock to know that carter be never in fact much more than an average fighter who be well past his prime when arrest for murder so why this movie be make out that rubin carter would have be a boxing great if it wasn not for be wrongly convict of murder i have no idea . at the very best carter be a very mediocre journeyman fighter at best . robinson and hagler and ali or hearns he be not oh yes he be wrongly convict of murder and just to lay it on with a trowel a very early scene have the sadistic warder from the shawshank redemption tell the wrong but noble rubin to keep calm because he know a cruel injustice have be do but there nothing he can do to help . meekly rubin forgive his captor because that who rubin be a noble forgiving paragon of humility and be only three scene into this movie and be weep tear for the guy and in fact you have to wonder why such a great guy be ever convict of murder when he be a decorated war hero with a chest full of medal and we do not have to wait too long because it transpire that the cop be racist . we know theyre racist because the arrest officer state your black as be go down and but that doesn not worry rubin because he defiantly reply i know i be innocent and he be and such a pity that the twelve juror be all white and all racist and decide he be guilty simply because he be black . thankfully justice be serve though be it belatedly when a bunch of canadian expose this terrible miscarriage of justice and rubin be set free . despite have his best year take away from him rubin bar no hatred towards the people who set him up . compare to rubin carter jesus christ be a bitter and twisted man . it make washington performance a steve biko in cry freedom look like an amateur performance in a school play . or so be lead to believe this film be a total disgrace . it doesn not play hard and fast with the fact because there little in the way of fact . a i point out he be never a contender for a world title so forget all the boxing scene that suggest he be . you can also forget all about the racist arrest officer investigate the murder case because he a composite character that include at least one black detective so racism wasn not at the heart of the case . rubin carter be dishonourably charge from the army and never have a distinguish military career and the juror in the case include two black and he be find guilty by a unanimous decision so have a black as wasn not a motive for find him guilty and he be finally release on a technicality not because he be innocent and there umpteen other revisionist aspect to the story . if you read the fact ( something the producer of this movie clearly haven not do ) of the carter case you might not think he guilty but you will instantly realise that this story be entirely fictional . it hollywood rewrite history in the bad possible way . okay there an opening disclaimer point out that some of the character be composite and some scene be dramatize but people with no prior knowledge of the fact would not realise just how disgraceful this film be at change fact into something entirely different i have award the hurricane three out of ten and it would have get even less if it wasn not for the good performance and some technical achievement in edit and cinematography .