7/10
Absorbing and flawed
4 July 2016
Made in America, though lengthy, is far more compelling than the recent biopic with the egregiously miscast Cuba Gooding. My issue with this documentary is the constant hammering-ad nauseum- on the viewer with the racial background; the Watts riot, Rodney King, the LAPD, etc. OJ was a charismatic black superstar who chose to live in a white world with a blonde wife and almost exclusively white friends. Certainly not a crime but, and this is now forgotten, he was much criticised for this by the black community. A race martyr, he wasn't.

I live in LA a few miles from the Bundy crime scene and my brother-in-law used to play tennis with OJ's buddy, Al Cowlings. I ran into Al at a local market a few days after the Bronco chase. I didn't crank up the courage to ask him if OJ 'did it'. The most salient recollection was my right hand disappearing into his huge mitt when we shook hands.
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