Howdy fellow film freaks, Robert here. When you sit down to watch a movie like Imperium, which is about an FBI agent infiltrating a white supremacist movement under suspicion of plotting domestic terrorism, you come with certain preconceptions. Based on what I took away from the trailer for this film, I expected it to be 1998's American History X in reverse: instead of a committed white supremacist realizing the error of his ways, I expected a movie about a more or less normal white guy who falls in with a bunch of neo-Nazis and finds their hateful philosophy to his liking. This is because, as much as I love movies, I don't expect Hollywood to challenge popular opinion when it comes to politics. So I thought I would be sitting through yet another tired parable about how all white people are terrible racists whether they know it or not, and racism is a uniquely white scourge. But hey, at least I'd get to see Daniel Radcliffe make another attempt to escape Hogwarts. My glass was half full.
