One Night in Miami manages to reconcile all four legendary personalities.
If we’re being completely honest, Eli Goree’s exquisite Cassius Clay owns the evening, followed by Kingsley Ben-Adir’s conflicted Malcolm X. Part of that is that the desire brother Malcolm has for his talented friend Cassius strengthens the evening’s greatest conversations in One Night in Miami. At the beginning of this story, Clay did not fully embrace the nation of Islam and did not declare himself Muhammad Ali. That landmark decision feeds into One Night Miami’s biggest theme: What are influential people doing with their influence to make the world a better place?
