This fictionalized history chronicles the far-reaching changes effected by the radical group the Black Panthers during the late 1960s since Vietnam vet Judge returns to his hometown of Oakland to find it beset by violence and police discrimination against African-Americans.
In his fictionalized story, Van Peebles simplifies the history of the Black Panthers, doing harm to a subject that he presumably intends to honor. Panther suffers from the same narrative and stylistic problems that has plagued his earlier films.
