Supremacy (DVD REVIEW)
Supremacy
DVD Review by Kam Williams
DVD Recounts Real-Life Ordeal of Black Family Held
Hostage by White Supremacists
Garrett Tully
(Joe Anderson) is about to be paroled after spending the last 15 years behind
bars. Although he might have paid his debt to society, he has little
hope of making a smooth adjustment back to civilian life, given his fervent
hope that America
is on the brink of a race war.
You see, Garrett has a lot invested
in that belief, being a white supremacist with
tattoos of swastikas, a Confederate flag, an Iron Cross and the word “HATE”
adorning his face, arms, fingers and chest. This means his prospects of turning
a new leaf aren’t very brilliant, especially since Doreen (Dawn
Olivieri), the Aryan Brotherhood groupie picking him
up from prison, is packing heat just in case they cross paths with a black
person on the way home.
And wouldn’t you know it,
they’re pulled over by an African-American police officer en route and, before
Doreen has a chance to produce her license and registration, Tully calls the
cop the “N-word” and blows him away with the gun hidden under the seat. Next,
rather than hightailing it to a neo-Nazi sanctuary, the unrepentant race
baiters decide to break into a house in a black neighborhood where they proceed
to use more racial slurs like “porch monkey” and “niglet” while holding
everybody hostage.
Fortunately, the Walker family patriarch
(Danny Glover) makes sure cooler heads prevail, until help arrives. Too bad the
police negotiator (Derek Luke) turns out to be African-American, too.
Directed by Deon Taylor
(Chain Letter), Supremacy is a hostage thriller ostensibly inspired by actual
events which transpired in Sonoma
County, California on
the night of March 29, 1995. At 11:30 that evening, Sheriff’s Deputy Frank
Trejo was assassinated by a recently-paroled member of the Aryan Brotherhood
and his gun moll, just before they forced their way into a nearby house and
held the owners captive.
The resolution of this Hollywood version of the standoff relies on an empathetic
Mr. Walker’s rising to the occasion. His philosophizing (“Prison does something
to a man.”) miraculously manages to induce a couple of the most menacing and
despicable screen characters in recent memory to have an 11th hour
conversion.
A pretty preposterous turn
of events, but who am I to argue with a tale supposedly based on a true story?
Fair (1.5 stars)
Unrated
Running
time: 111 minutes
Distributor:
Well Go Entertainment
DVD
Extras: Behind-the-Scenes featurette; and the theatrical trailer.
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see a trailer for Supremacy, visit:
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