History YMMV / JudasAndTheBlackMessiah

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: While Creator/DanielKaluuya's performance as Fred Hampton was widely acclaimed and received numerous awards and nominations, the drastic age difference between Kaluuya (32 at the time of the film's release) and the real Hampton (21 at the time of his death) did raise some eyebrows. Also applies to Creator/LakeithStanfield, who was nearly a decade older than Bill O'Neal was at the time of Hampton's death (20).
* TheWoobie: Deborah Johnson certainly counts by virtue of being engaged to a man whose ruthlessly targeted by the FBI, which means that [[IronWoobie all of Fred's suffering]] is her suffering. Nowhere is this more personified than when a pregnant Deborah [[spoiler: is there to witness her fiancé get murdered right after enduring a hailstorm of gunfire.]]

* LoveToHate: Many commentators spoke highly of Martin Sheen's brief, but chilling screen time as J Edgar Hoover for capturing just how vile the man really was. [[SpecialEffectsFailure When they weren't complaining about how off the CGI done to touch up his appearance looked, that is.]]

* {{SugarWiki/FunnyMoments}}: A meta example. After winning an Oscar for his role, Daniel Kaluuya had this to say: "We gotta celebrate life, man. We’re breathing, we’re walking. It’s incredible… [[BreadEggsMilkSquick My mom and my dad, they had sex]]. It’s amazing!". The best part is his family's reaction to the second sentence.

* {{SugarWiki/FunnyMoments}}: A meta example. After winning an Oscar for his role, Daniel Kaluuya had this to say: "We gotta celebrate life, man. We’re breathing, we’re walking. It’s incredible… [[BreadEggsMilkSquick My mom and my dad, they had sex]]. It’s amazing!". The best part is his family's reaction to the second sentence.

* TheWoobie:

* TheWoobie: Fred Hampton. A good man who fought hard for his people's rights, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished which got him repeatedly targeted by the FBI]], who are not only dead set on putting him behind bars, but making him suffer. [[spoiler: Fred's demise may be expected, but that doesn't make the young leader's untimely end anything less than tragic]].

* TearJerker: Deborah worrying about her yet to be born child with Hampton, and how Hampton may not live to see him. [[spoiler:This turns out to be the case, as Hampton was shot dead 25 days before his son was born. (see Nightmare Fuel above)]]

* AwardSnub: A very strange {{Aversion}} of one. Creator/LakeithStanfield was campaigned as a leading actor, where he then was left out out the nominations at most awards bodies. In the end he didn't get a Best Actor nomination at the Oscars, but instead received a shocking Best Supporting Actor nomination. Some have theorized that Stanfield's supporters didn't think he would make the leading category and thus opted to put him in the more open supporting one.
* AwardCategoryFraud: When the film was first released, critics agreed that Creator/DanielKaluuya was a co-lead of the film, because so much of the story centered around him. Despite this, he was campaigned in supporting and won the Golden Globe in supporting. Complicating manners further, when the Oscar nominations were announced, Kaluuya got in supporting, ''and so did Creator/LakeithStanfield'', who had been campaigning as a lead and is unanimously agreed upon as the lead of the film. Even Oscar experts can't understand how it's possible that the actors who receive first and second billing and are the titular characters of the film are not considered leads.

* AwardCategoryFraud: When the film was first released, critics agreed that Creator/DanielKaluuya was a co-lead of the film, because so much of the story centered around him. Despite this, he was campaigned in supporting and won the Golden Globe in supporting. Complicating manners further, when the Oscar nominations were announced, Kaluuya got in supporting, 'and so did Creator/LakeithStanfield', who had been campaigning as a lead and is unanimously agreed upon as the lead of the film. Even Oscar experts can't understand how it's possible that the actors who receive first and second billing and are the titular characters of the film are not considered leads.

* JustForFun/RoleAssociation: With Creator/DanielKaluuya and Creator/LakeithStanfield as the leads and even a cameo from Creator/LilRelHowery, the movie is practically a ''Film/{{Get Out|2017}}'' reunion.

* TheWoobie: Fred Hampton. A good man who fought hard for his people's rights, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished which got him repeatedly targeted by the FBI]]. [[spoiler: All of this leads to his tragic, if expected demise]].