An atypical Hollywood bank robbery thriller by Spike Lee, as a criminal group executes a perfect heist in the watchful eyes of the police in this compelling piece headlined by Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.
A cultural touchstone in modern American cinema, Spike Lee’s breakthrough tell-it-as-it-is treatment of racism is even more sobering to view more than 30 years later.
An interesting mess of ideas, genres and styles, Spike Lee’s lengthy new joint is effective when it is polemical, but the main message about how we could draw urgent relevancy from the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement in relation to the painful lessons of the Vietnam War gets muddled in the film’s excesses.
Has no real narrative impetus and mistakes a laidback filmmaking style for meaning-making, this modern ‘Ganja and Hess’ remake by Spike Lee is a turn-off.
A return to sterling form for Spike Lee, this is one of the year’s most powerful films, and it’s very funny too.
Spike Lee’s remake of Park Chan-wook’s twisted masterpiece starts off lethargically, but grows in confidence with its material, though it is still many miles away from the standard of the South Korean original.
Eternality Tan 