This isn't a complaint you'll hear me make much, but for once I actually felt this film, at 1hr 53mins was too short. There are some films that truly should be epics and some films, such as certain bio-pics, that need to be long in order to convey to the viewer the length of time that the protagonist was suffering and struggling for - Amazing Grace is one of those films. With a longer running time much more could have been made of Wilberforce's past, and how his life was turned around by God, more could also have been made of the overwhelming opposition he faced; not only in parliament but in society too - I would've liked a little more of the big picture to grasp the scale of his achievement. My other main complaint, and I should state at this point that despite these complaints Amazing Grace still has a very secure place in my top-100, is that the focus of the film does leave one with Wilberforce in the mind come the end, and not God, let alone Jesus. This is not a fault of the film alone, but is instead a general tendency of Evangelical Christianity - the same is true of Martin Luther King Jr's legacy. Though I heard God mentioned a few times in Amazing Grace, I don't think I heard Jesus's name mentioned once. Still, despite these faults the film is well worth watching and remains inspirational. My favourite line comes after Wilberforce tells Pitt "no one our age has ever taken power before", to which Pitt responds "which is why we're too young to realise that certain things are impossible". There is also a good reminder later on that "when the people lose their fear, they rediscover their compassion". I have read one biography on Wilberforce's life, and this film has given me even more of a hunger to read William Hague's portrait of the man too.