“Green Book” tells the story, "based on real events," of a trip made by Tony "Lip" Vallelonga, an Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, as driver and bodyguard for classically influenced black jazz pianist Don Shirley on a 1962 tour through America's segregated South, a politically charged topic to say the least. Yet in its eagerness to offer a tonic for our nation's increasingly fraught racial environment, the film tones down its politically charged subject until it's little more than an odd-couple road movie.
Read Mike’s review at KCActive.