The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain

Fine acting by all involved. The film encompassed many genres: dramatic, educational and documentary. A must see for emergency 1st responders and should be discussed in an open forum.

This tragedy could have been avoided with proper training and egos kept in check.

How was this film not promoted by Hollywood, the media & the whole entertainment industry?!

I came across it scrolling through Amazon Prime so found it by chance, which i find to be a ridiculous way to find a film as well made & educating.

I say educating as it teaches the viewers how corrupt the American policing & justice systems are. They sent in an armed tactical force to "welfare check", a 70 year old Bio-polar Veteran with a heart condition, not opening his door! The frightened him. Tried to bully him then shot him but were not charged with any crime & kept their job!

Well done to all involved in the making of the heartbreaking, hatd to watch film.

7/10.

It is hard to put into words how I feel after watching this movie. It is a very personal film for me. When I was a teenager, I witnessed a very similar incident of police taking unnecessary measures against a person who should not have been targeted. A very close family friend's son died after he called the police for what he believed was the process of a home invasion. It didn't take long for the police to turn him into the suspect and murder him in front of his disabled father. They did not try to talk to his mother and only told her to step aside. He was a 22 year-old Mexican-American young man. The official police report leaves a lot of details out and his family never got the justice they deserve. His father was a Vietnam veteran, just like Kenneth Chamberlain. Frankie Faison who plays Chamberlain gives an award-winning performance. He draws us in to his vulnerabilities and the traumas that shaped the man he became. After the horrific Rodney King beating and unimaginable George Floyd murder, I feel like most of us have witnessed enough brutality to realize policing must change in America (and around the world). We need more than just police reports. This movie explores a real-life incident in real-time. It captures the difficulties that police officers deal with, but also examines the threats many members of the community feel when they are helpless in police hands. The movie takes us into the internal and external dialogues police have with each other and with themselves. You cannot help but step into their shoes, into a high-intensity situation which requires methodological training. It shows the terrorization we are all feeling -where police and the community are on opposite ends. I can only hope that this movie creates a bridge between us all and opens the doors of dialogue; our cities must do better.

"depending on who you are, the sight of an officer can produce either a warm sense of safety and contentment or a plummeting feeling of terror"

Watch this movie and read that again.

Based on just one true story and over a decade after the events took place, this film is still painfully relevant. You'll likely spend the credits sitting in silence - recovering and trying to process what you just witnessed. All poor reviews so far seem to have missed the point and/or thought it was fiction.

No matter where you live in this world, but especially if you are white (yes Australia, us too), please, watch this film. Check your privilege and let your perspective change with it.

This is a perfect example of what great independent film can be. It takes place in two rooms, but is so well made that you never wish it was opened up. The realtime storytelling makes the heart wrenching story even more effective. Great acting, especially by Frankie Faison, Enrico Natale and Tom McElroy. I hope this film finds a wider audience. It deserves it.