Can we finally strop pretending Spike Lee is a great film-maker now?
This film was a mess. Hokey, cliche, outdated. Every actor outside the M.C. was horrible and the film goes on five hours after the plot ended. If his films didn't preach political themes, people would be more level headed in their evaluation. Spike Lee has been a film-make for FORTY YEARS, he still doesn't have words like "editing," and "subtlety." in his vocabulary. He'd be thrown out of film-school otherwise with a joke like this, but lo and behold, he gets a 91 on rottentomatoes by experts who would otherwise know better.
A hundred years after America grows out of its juvenile skin shade obsession, scholars will look at his films and there will be nothing to see.